Artificial Anatomy · Left to Suffer

103 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30 and 32, and 4 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ARTIFICIAL ANATOMY · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 37, 45, 46, 50, 54 and 4 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 15 sections: 61 keep time, 10 are fills, 5 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
PART Z
PART AG
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHDPZAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Artificial Anatomy?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Artificial Anatomy hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Artificial Anatomy?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 37, 45, 46, 50, 54 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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