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Taking The Music Back · Anthrax

EXERCISE 15 OF 28
Groove I -- Outro
81 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Taking The Music Back on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, snare through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-60, snare through bars 61-67, hi-hat through bars 68-88 and toms through bars 89-91, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Taking The Music Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-47 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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