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Are You There? · Anathema

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove D -- Outro 2
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0 / 10 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Are You There? on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-10, ride through bars 11-58 and kick and crashes through bars 59-70.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|
Are You There? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED