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This Could Be Anywhere In The World · Alexisonfire

EXERCISE 21 OF 49
Join Chorus to Part A (bars 44-46)
101 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMAVZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Could Be Anywhere In The World on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-24, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27               28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x--x----|---x----x-------|
BD |x--x--x-------x-|x-----x---x---x-|
This Could Be Anywhere In The World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 12, 14, 20, 22 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-64 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Could Be Anywhere In The World?

124 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 This Could Be Anywhere In The World hard to play on drums?

63 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 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 This Could Be Anywhere In The World?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 12, 14, 20, 22 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED