Anywhere · Avantasia

90 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 13 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
ANYWHERE · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 22, 39, 40 and 8 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 5 sections: 63 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-90.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anywhere?

125 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 Anywhere 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Anywhere?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 22, 39, 40 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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