Snake In The Grass · Annihilator

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-15 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 106 BPM
SNAKE IN THE GRASS · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 50, 53, 54 and 68.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGTLQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snake In The Grass?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Snake In The Grass hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Snake In The Grass?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 50, 53, 54 and 68.

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