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Anna · Stone Sour

EXERCISE 29 OF 48
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 45-47)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
PART D
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART D
PART R
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMDJAAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anna on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-38, snare through bars 39-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 20, 21, 26, 30, 34 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-24 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 59-93 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anna?

130 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 hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 20, 21, 26, 30, 34 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED