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Sound Of Madness · Shinedown

EXERCISE 31 OF 54
Fill at bar 60
65 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sound Of Madness on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, ride through bars 23-31, hi-hat through bars 32-43, ride through bars 44-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-61, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Sound Of Madness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-22 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-56 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-75 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S9 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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