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Animal I Have Become · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 15 OF 40
Run E1 · Chorus (bars 16-31)
79 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEDBFS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Animal I Have Become on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16 and toms through bars 17-18, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
Animal I Have Become -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 27, 53, 77, 89, 97 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-70 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 67-90 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-99 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 96-111 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Animal I Have Become?

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 hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 27, 53, 77, 89, 97 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED