Top Gun Anthem · Harold Faltermeyer

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
TOP GUN ANTHEM · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 37, 45, 53, 61, 72 and 7 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 6 sections: 89 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAEHPS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Top Gun Anthem?

104 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 Top Gun Anthem hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Top Gun Anthem?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 37, 45, 53, 61, 72 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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