Back To The Palace · Annihilator

25 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 0:56 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:56
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12 and 14-16 -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BACK TO THE PALACE · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 4 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 19-25 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 2 sections: 8 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-16.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back To The Palace?

104 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 Back To The Palace hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Back To The Palace?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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