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Artificial Anatomy · Left to Suffer

Artificial Anatomy · Left to Suffer
EXERCISE 5 OF 51
Groove D -- Part D
25 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART P, PART AG
PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
PART Z
PART D
PART AG
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHDPZAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Artificial Anatomy on drums

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

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-21, silence through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-44, toms through bars 45-46 and snare through bars 47-59, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26                                               27
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----x-----------|------x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|
Artificial Anatomy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-33 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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