Like Animals (Arirang) · BTS

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-19, 30-36 and 47-48, and 3 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
LIKE ANIMALS (ARIRANG) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 37, 45, 49, 53 and 61.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 7 sections: 38 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like Animals (Arirang)?

80 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 Like Animals (Arirang) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Like Animals (Arirang)?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 37, 45, 49, 53 and 61.

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