Closer · Anathema

55 bars, 3:09, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ProgressiveAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-53 -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
CLOSER · BAR 41
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 4 sections: 50 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-53.

PART A
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDACBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closer?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Closer hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Closer?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

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