Ænema · Tool

199 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 122 BPM, 6:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-106, 124-146 and 148-150, and 1 more place -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
ÆNEMA · BAR 102
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 52, 60, 62 and 26 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 17 sections: 137 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-146.

PART B
PART E
PART J
PART T
CHORUS
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART AV
PART AX
15 groovesAGTAXBAV+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ænema?

122 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ænema hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Ænema?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 52, 60, 62 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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