Fucked With An Anchor · Alestorm

146 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-37 and 39, and 12 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FUCKED WITH AN ANCHOR · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 43, 44, 52, 60, 87 and 5 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 13 sections: 106 keep time, 11 are fills, 9 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-42.

PART S2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECQBS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fucked With An Anchor?

150 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 Fucked With An Anchor hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Fucked With An Anchor?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 43, 44, 52, 60, 87 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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