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Animals · Architects

EXERCISE 21 OF 30
Join Chorus 2 to Part O (bars 53-55)
68 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART O
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
11 groovesHFORS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Animals on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, toms through bars 12-13, silence through bars 14-16, toms through bars 17-20 and ride through bars 21-28, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
Animals -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 50, 64 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-24 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-45 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-65 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Animals?

95 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 Animals hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Animals?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 50, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED