Idols And Anchors · Parkway Drive

150 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 7 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
IDOLS AND ANCHORS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 4, 43, 59, 67, 70 and 9 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 17 sections: 88 keep time, 15 are fills, 18 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-22.

PART A
CHORUS
PART S4
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
14 groovesFPSDAA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Idols And Anchors?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Idols And Anchors hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 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 Idols And Anchors?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 4, 43, 59, 67, 70 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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