Animal · Pearl Jam

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 11 and 15-18, and 4 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
ANIMAL · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 8 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 72-73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 6 sections: 53 keep time and 14 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-63.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Animal?

106 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 hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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?

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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