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Anotha One · Abylith

EXERCISE 1 OF 69
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAMES4Z+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anotha One on drums

360 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 6:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
360
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
83/100

ride through bars 1-112, silence through bars 113-146, ride through bars 147-195, silence through bars 196-198, ride through bars 199-296 and hi-hat through bars 297-312, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 29 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-84 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 111-147 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anotha One?

160 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Anotha One hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

360 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Anotha One?

10 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 360 BARS ANALYSED