A Dream of Armageddon · Ares Kingdom

183 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 9:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
9:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90-96, 107 and 111, and 7 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 52, 69, 75, 77, 79 and 20 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 23 sections: 104 keep time, 26 are fills, 9 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-47.

PART B
PART S4
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AS
OUTRO
21 groovesZASS4KAV+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Dream of Armageddon?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 A Dream of Armageddon hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 9:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 A Dream of Armageddon?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 52, 69, 75, 77, 79 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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