7 Trumpets of Apocalypse · PSICOSIS

41 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
1:02
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-41 -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
7 TRUMPETS OF APOCALYPSE · BAR 27
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 and 25.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 3 sections: 24 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

PART S1
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesJS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 7 Trumpets of Apocalypse?

160 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 7 Trumpets of Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 1:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 7 Trumpets of Apocalypse?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 and 25.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 41 BARS ANALYSED
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