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Anthem · blink-182

EXERCISE 9 OF 62
Groove F
87 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesNQBUAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anthem on drums

184 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-24, ride through bars 25-34, snare through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-60, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 52-55 and 59, and 9 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    101
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xx--|
Anthem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 35, 36, 40 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anthem?

196 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Anthem hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Anthem?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 35, 36, 40 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED