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Hunter Killer · Annihilator

EXERCISE 19 OF 89
Groove J -- Part J
178 / 280 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART L, PART AO
PART G
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
PART AF
PART L
PART AO
PART AF
OUTRO 2
13 groovesWAFLNG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hunter Killer on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-57, ride through bars 58-65, hi-hat through bars 66-89 and snare through bars 90-95, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    104
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Hunter Killer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- W -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-19 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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