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Anthropoid · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 25 OF 72
2-bar fill at bar 39 and 2 more
100 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anthropoid on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-38, toms through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-54, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Anthropoid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- N, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-37 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-57 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 55-73 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-97 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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