Anthem Of Our Dying Day · Story Of The Year

108 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 3:17 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 15 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
ANTHEM OF OUR DYING DAY · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 34, 50, 67, 68 and 13 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 67-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-64.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART I
PART J
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
OUTRO
8 groovesCDJBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anthem Of Our Dying Day?

98 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Anthem Of Our Dying Day hard to play on drums?

50 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Anthem Of Our Dying Day?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 34, 50, 67, 68 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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