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Annihilation Of The Wicked · Nile

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EXERCISE 21 OF 102
2-bar fill at bar 78
134 / 283 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS 3
PART T
BREAK 3
16 groovesHJAFXS31+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Annihilation Of The Wicked on drums

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.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
92/100

ride through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, silence through bars 7-33, hi-hat through bars 34-40, snare through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-51, and 33 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Annihilation Of The Wicked -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-40 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-45 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-72 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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