Sound Of Madness · Shinedown

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 6 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
SOUND OF MADNESS · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 26, 28, 31 and 20 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 12 sections: 49 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDGS9WB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sound Of Madness?

93 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 Sound Of Madness hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Sound Of Madness?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 26, 28, 31 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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