Anklebiters · Paramore

66 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-14 and 26, and 9 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ANKLEBITERS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 7, 15, 24, 25, 29 and 11 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 6 sections: 41 keep time, 17 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-14.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCOGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anklebiters?

120 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 Anklebiters hard to play on drums?

85 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?

66 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 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 Anklebiters?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 7, 15, 24, 25, 29 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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