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Anthem · Rush

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove S -- Chorus
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PART B
PART F
PART P
CHORUS
PART P
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART AL
BREAK
10 groovesS14SPFY+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anthem on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, toms through bars 22-24, silence through bars 25-29 and ride through bars 30-37, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- S, P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-41 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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