Taking The Music Back · Anthrax

109 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 31-38 and 53-54, and 3 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
TAKING THE MUSIC BACK · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 89, 90, 91, 92, 100, 108 and 1 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 89-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 108-109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time, 7 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-88.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Taking The Music Back?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Taking The Music Back hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Taking The Music Back?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 89, 90, 91, 92, 100, 108 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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