Animals · Alex G

47 bars, 2:46, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15 and 29, and 1 more place -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 68 BPM
ANIMALS · BARS 11-12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 18, 33 and 34.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 6 sections: 34 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHBVMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Animals?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Animals hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Animals?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 18, 33 and 34.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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