Reduced To Ash · Annihilator

99 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 16 more places -- 76.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
REDUCED TO ASH · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 53 and 97.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 5 sections: 84 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-52.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCS1S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reduced To Ash?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Reduced To Ash hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Reduced To Ash?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 53 and 97.

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