I Am In Command · Annihilator

131 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 27 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
I AM IN COMMAND · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 23, 31, 37, 38, 50 and 16 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 9 sections: 72 keep time, 22 are fills, 25 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-57.

PART C
PART H
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLHQS4C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am In Command?

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

Is I Am In Command hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Am In Command?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 23, 31, 37, 38, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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