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Don't Bother Me · Annihilator

EXERCISE 31 OF 36
Run E1 · Part E (bars 144-148)
176 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART E
OUTRO
9 groovesCFKMS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Bother Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
231 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and ride through bars 73-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Don't Bother Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-89 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 72-100 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 129-144 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 144-186 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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