Sounds Good To Me · Annihilator

173 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 42-44, and 25 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 89, 105, 121, 137, 145, 153 and 2 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 9 sections: 141 keep time, 9 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-68.

PART B
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIBS8GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sounds Good To Me?

162 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 Sounds Good To Me hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sounds Good To Me?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 89, 105, 121, 137, 145, 153 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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