Beauty Of Annihilation · Elena Siegman

118 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 51-54 and 57, and 8 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BEAUTY OF ANNIHILATION · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 76, 91, 92, 112 and 114.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 12 sections: 90 keep time, 6 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-111.

PART H
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
8 groovesKLJHA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beauty Of Annihilation?

110 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 Beauty Of Annihilation hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Beauty Of Annihilation?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 76, 91, 92, 112 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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