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Annihilate Me · I Prevail

EXERCISE 20 OF 38
Groove L
29 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Annihilate Me on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, silence through bars 11-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------gg--g-x-----gg|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----x-----|
Annihilate Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-16 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-25 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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