The Fun Palace · Annihilator

277 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 5:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-64 and 90-95, and 5 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 191 BPM
THE FUN PALACE · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 76, 80, 125 and 3 more.

LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

277 bars across 20 sections: 223 keep time, 9 are fills, 12 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 245-277.

PART S2
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNEAKFAD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fun Palace?

191 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 The Fun Palace hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

277 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 The Fun Palace?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 76, 80, 125 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 277 BARS ANALYSED
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