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Anubis · Septicflesh

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesCDJPS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anubis on drums

170 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 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
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-40, snare through bars 41-45, silence through bars 46-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 33 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Anubis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 68, 72, 88 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-56 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-121 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 136-157 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anubis?

160 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 Anubis 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Anubis?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 68, 72, 88 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED