Animal · Neon Trees

127 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-42, 61-74 and 85-91, and 3 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
ANIMAL · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 60, 83, 84, 96, 110 and 118.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 8 sections: 109 keep time, 9 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-26.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGBJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Animal?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 hard to play on drums?

55 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?

127 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 60, 83, 84, 96, 110 and 118.

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