Anthem · Rush

158 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 155 BPM, 5:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 71-73 and 75-77, and 1 more place -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
ANTHEM · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 19 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 5-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 18-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 14 sections: 64 keep time, 25 are fills, 8 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-44.

PART B
PART F
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AL
BREAK
10 groovesS14SPFY+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anthem?

155 BPM, in 6/4, 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?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 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 Anthem?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Rush drum parts

EVERY RUSH CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →