Annie-Dog · Smashing Pumpkins

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 25-28 and 30-31, and 6 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
ANNIE-DOG · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 32, 40, 48, 52, 68 and 5 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-62.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBIS1QFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Annie-Dog?

104 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 Annie-Dog hard to play on drums?

43 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor 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 Annie-Dog?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 32, 40, 48, 52, 68 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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