Animals · Maroon 5

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-33, 36-48 and 50-65, and 2 more places -- 87.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
ANIMALS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 82.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 2 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-33.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesCS1ES3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Animals?

94 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?

53 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Animals?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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