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Anna Molly · Incubus

EXERCISE 26 OF 55
Groove M -- Verse (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
PART D
PART J
VERSE
PART D
PART J
VERSE 2
CHORUS
PART V
PART W
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRDJMA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anna Molly on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, snare through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-84 and snare through bars 85-119, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86-100 and 140 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |gggggggggggggggg|
BD |----x-------x---|
Anna Molly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- V, R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anna Molly?

153 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 Molly hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Anna Molly?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED