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Baby, I'm An Anarchist · Against Me!

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baby, I'm An Anarchist on drums

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

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
23/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-67 and silence through bars 68-101.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Baby, I'm An Anarchist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B, C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED