Indians · Anthrax

146 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 30-32 and 42-44, and 6 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
INDIANS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 10, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 30 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 20-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 23 sections: 84 keep time, 36 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-105.

PART G
PART T
PART T
CHORUS 4
PART AB
OUTRO
9 groovesOTMQAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Indians?

110 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 Indians hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Indians?

14 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 10, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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