Hunter Killer · Annihilator

280 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-109, 111-117 and 119-121, and 13 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 198 BPM
HUNTER KILLER · BAR 104
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 17, 33, 49, 57, 65, 69 and 31 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

280 bars across 18 sections: 216 keep time, 37 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 204-234.

PART G
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
PART AF
PART L
PART AF
OUTRO 2
13 groovesWAFLNG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hunter Killer?

198 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 Hunter Killer hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hunter Killer?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 17, 33, 49, 57, 65, 69 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 280 BARS ANALYSED
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