Anna Begins · Counting Crows

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 11 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
ANNA BEGINS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 75 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-91.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anna Begins?

82 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 Anna Begins hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Anna Begins?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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