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Idols And Anchors · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 3 OF 68
Groove P -- Part P
35 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Idols And Anchors on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-18, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------x---x---x---x---|
Idols And Anchors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- F, AC -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-122 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-52 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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