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Anna Begins · Counting Crows

EXERCISE 15 OF 20
Run G1 · Part G (bars 43-52)
89 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anna Begins on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 3-42, ride through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-70 and ride through bars 71-92.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---o---x-|
SD |---x--------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Anna Begins -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-36 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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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