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Anthem · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 1 OF 95
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AG
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBOAGAAW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anthem on drums

204 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-51, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-15 and 17-18, and 17 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Anthem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 19, 20, 24 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-134 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-62 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-64 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anthem?

220 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?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 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 Anthem?

26 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 19, 20, 24 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED