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Sound of Madness. · Shinedown

EXERCISE 14 OF 42
Groove H -- Part H
133 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sound of Madness. on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
37/100

toms through bars 2-18, snare through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-35, snare through bars 36-70, hi-hat through bars 71-77 and snare through bars 78-101, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Sound of Madness. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 40-59 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-83 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 67-90 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 88-132 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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