Annihilator · Annihilator

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 17 more places -- 74.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
ANNIHILATOR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars: 102 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-103.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Annihilator?

96 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 Annihilator hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Annihilator?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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