Anthropoid · Lamb Of God

171 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 81-86, and 8 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ANTHROPOID · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 32 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 15 sections: 94 keep time, 38 are fills, 15 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-121.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART AI
PART AP
OUTRO
10 groovesNAKAIAP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anthropoid?

200 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 Anthropoid 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Anthropoid?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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