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Anywhere · Avantasia

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 32 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anywhere on drums

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.

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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-72, toms through bars 73-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-90.

The beat

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.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x-g-x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-x---x-x-|x---x---x---x---|
Anywhere -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 11 minutes.
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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