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Sounds Good To Me · Annihilator

EXERCISE 16 OF 30
Join Part I to Chorus 3 (bars 68-70)
156 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 3
PART B
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIBS8GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sounds Good To Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Sounds Good To Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-69 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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