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Animals · Architects

EXERCISE 12 OF 36
Groove G
54 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHFBLO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
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, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-16, toms through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-35 and toms through bars 36-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, 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
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Animals -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 50, 68, 75 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-32 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-14 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-32 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-58 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 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?

49 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 24 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 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Animals?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 50, 68, 75 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED