Condor Man · Animetal

45 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 27-29 and 31-34, and 1 more place -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
CONDOR MAN · BAR 16
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 5 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 18-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 6 sections: 23 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-12.

CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAHPMRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Condor Man?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Condor Man hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Condor Man?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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