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Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour · Enter Shikari

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove K -- Chorus
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0 / 53 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART A
PART R
OUTRO
7 groovesKEACR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-42, toms through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-56, toms through bars 57-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-63, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-59, 106-121 and 123-125, and 1 more place -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 29 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 -- K, A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-45 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour hard to play on drums?

58 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour?

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED