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Top Gun Anthem · Harold Faltermeyer

Top Gun Anthem · Harold Faltermeyer
EXERCISE 8 OF 35
Run A1 · Chorus (bars 1-33)
76 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAEHPS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Top Gun Anthem on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-92, silence through bars 93-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-113.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
RD |x---x---x---x---|
T1 |----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Top Gun Anthem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-38 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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