Annihilation Of The Wicked · Nile

283 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-39, 45-50 and 64-69, and 13 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 240 BPM
ANNIHILATION OF THE WICKED · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 59, 63 and 49 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 78-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

283 bars across 31 sections: 146 keep time, 56 are fills, 4 are stops and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-150.

CHORUS 3
PART T
BREAK 3
16 groovesHJAFXS31+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Annihilation Of The Wicked?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Annihilation Of The Wicked hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

283 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 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 Annihilation Of The Wicked?

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 59, 63 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 283 BARS ANALYSED
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