Don't Bother Me · Annihilator

190 bars at 231 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
231 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
3:17
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 9-15, 33-37 and 39-45, and 10 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 231 BPM
DON'T BOTHER ME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 88, 142 and 190.

LOOP · 231 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 231 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 231 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 231 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 18 sections: 150 keep time, 6 are fills, 9 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 159-182.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
9 groovesCFKMS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Bother Me?

231 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Don't Bother Me hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Don't Bother Me?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 88, 142 and 190.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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