Hope · Anathema

144 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-39 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HOPE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 143.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 6 sections: 106 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-39.

CHORUS
PART D
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS5GEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hope?

125 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 Hope hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Hope?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 143.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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