Are You There? · Anathema

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-21 and 23-58 -- 71.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
ARE YOU THERE? · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 22.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 3 sections: 46 keep time, 2 are fills, 17 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-58.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Are You There??

97 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 Are You There? hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Are You There??

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 22.

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