Animate · Rush

176 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-12, 14-20 and 22-27, and 14 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
ANIMATE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 28, 38, 42, 44 and 29 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 18 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 11 sections: 127 keep time, 35 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-27.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Z
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDFUAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Animate?

116 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 Animate hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Animate?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 28, 38, 42, 44 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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