The Anthem · Good Charlotte

128 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 37 and 39, and 8 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
THE ANTHEM · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 28, 35, 36, 44 and 13 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-27.

PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART W
PART A
OUTRO
8 groovesGMDAFA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Anthem?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Anthem hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 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 The Anthem?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 28, 35, 36, 44 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Good Charlotte drum parts

EVERY GOOD CHARLOTTE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →