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Fucked With An Anchor · Alestorm

EXERCISE 19 OF 39
Run E1 · Chorus (bars 27-60)
114 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fucked With An Anchor on drums

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

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, toms through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and toms through bars 69-70, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x----------x--------------------x---------------|
BD |x----------x--------------------x----------x---------x-----x----|
Fucked With An Anchor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-27 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-89 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 101-114 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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