Animation · Karnivool

108 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 141 BPM, 4:55 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-27, 29 and 31, and 4 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 141 BPM
ANIMATION · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 8 sections: 32 keep time, 15 are fills and 55 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-29.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
BREAK
7 groovesS8CS1GI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Animation?

141 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Animation hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 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 Animation?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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