Annihilate Me · I Prevail

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 33 and 37, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
ANNIHILATE ME · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 21, 24, 39, 42, 43 and 3 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-35.

COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKCEIAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Annihilate Me?

77 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 Annihilate Me hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Annihilate Me?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 21, 24, 39, 42, 43 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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