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Anna Sun · Walk The Moon

EXERCISE 10 OF 44
Join Part B to Part D (bars 25-27)
109 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
VERSE
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART Q
CHORUS 5
11 groovesKBOS1Q+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anna Sun on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-23, toms through bars 24-30, hi-hat through bars 31-90, kick and crashes through bars 91-95 and silence through bars 96-97, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46-48 and 64-68, and 6 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Anna Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 45, 49, 77, 87, 123, 137 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- K, B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-51 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-54 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-69 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-94 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anna Sun?

138 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 Sun hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 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 Sun?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 45, 49, 77, 87, 123, 137 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED