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Indians · Anthrax

EXERCISE 18 OF 66
Groove G -- Part G
85 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Indians on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
84/100

toms through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-61 and toms through bars 62-70, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--|
Indians -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-143 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 11-46 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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