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I Am The Law · Anthrax

EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove N -- Chorus
0 / 247 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 58 BARS LIT
PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AE
PART AE
CHORUS 4
18 groovesNAEUJR+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am The Law on drums

247 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 6:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53, toms through bars 54-61, hi-hat through bars 62-77 and toms through bars 78-81, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-53, 63-77 and 100-114, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
I Am The Law -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 5, 7, 20, 21, 78, 79 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- N, AE -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-13 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-22 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-82 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am The Law?

152 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 I Am The Law hard to play on drums?

64 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 I Am The Law?

18 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 5, 7, 20, 21, 78, 79 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED