Animal I Have Become (Standard Tuning) · Three Days Grace

111 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 29-35 and 55-65, and 2 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
ANIMAL I HAVE BECOME (STANDARD TUNING) · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 77, 107 and 111.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 12 sections: 54 keep time, 4 are fills, 37 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-48.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBLEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Animal I Have Become (Standard Tuning)?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Animal I Have Become (Standard Tuning) hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Animal I Have Become (Standard Tuning)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 77, 107 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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