ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Animals on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 100 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 81
LENGTH: 3:14
DIFFICULTY: 82/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 42-48, and 3 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18                               19
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-------|--------x-----x---x-----x---x-xx|
BD |x---x-x-----x-------x-----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

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 17, 21, 27, 29, 31 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 37-51 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 46-65 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Animals?

100 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 Animals hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 12, 17, 21, 27, 29, 31 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED