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Anywhere Else · Slowwves

Anywhere Else · Slowwves
EXERCISE 19 OF 24
Groove N
69 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anywhere Else on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 9-10 and 13-19, and 11 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 21, 29, 33 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-30 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 52-68 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Anywhere Else?

88 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 Else hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Anywhere Else?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 21, 29, 33 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED