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Beauty Of Annihilation · Elena Siegman

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove K -- Chorus
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0 / 34 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beauty Of Annihilation on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-44, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-----x-------x---|
Beauty Of Annihilation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-84 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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