Word Salad · Annihilator

159 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 32-35 and 40, and 16 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WORD SALAD · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 41, 44, 46, 52, 73, 74 and 13 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 20 sections: 92 keep time, 19 are fills, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-158.

PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S
BREAK 3
PART Z
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
12 groovesKARSHZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Word Salad?

130 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 Word Salad hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Word Salad?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 41, 44, 46, 52, 73, 74 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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