One To Kill · Annihilator

135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

135

LENGTH

4:30

DIFFICULTY

72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-45, snare through bars 46-60, hi-hat through bars 61-70, snare through bars 71-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-108, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 7 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 36, 40, 52 and 26 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 16-109 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.