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Animation · Karnivool

EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
27 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART G
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Animation on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-60, snare through bars 61-66, hi-hat through bars 67-71 and silence through bars 72-108.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
SD |--------x---------------x---|
T1 |----x-----x---f---g-x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---x-----x-----|
HF |g---g---g---g---g---g---g---|
Animation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-47 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-63 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-72 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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