Baby, I'm An Anarchist · Against Me!

101 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 220 BPM, 2:47 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Punk150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 58.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BABY, I'M AN ANARCHIST · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 36.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 57 keep time, 1 is a fill and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-67.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baby, I'm An Anarchist?

220 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Baby, I'm An Anarchist hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 Baby, I'm An Anarchist?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 36.

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