Sound of Madness. · Shinedown

179 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 28-34 and 36-41, and 22 more places -- 55.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
SOUND OF MADNESS. · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 50, 91, 117, 136, 137, 145 and 2 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 136-137 · LANDS ON BAR 138 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 12 sections: 63 keep time, 8 are fills, 87 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-18.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S5
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDBS5S10N+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sound of Madness.?

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

Is Sound of Madness. hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Sound of Madness.?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 50, 91, 117, 136, 137, 145 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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