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A Dream of Armageddon · Ares Kingdom

A Dream of Armageddon · Ares Kingdom
EXERCISE 2 OF 93
Groove AS -- Part AS
19 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AS
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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 3
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Dream of Armageddon on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
9:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, silence through bars 16-24 and kick and crashes through bars 25-28, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    90
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o-------o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-----x-|
BD |x-x---x---x-----x-x---x---x-----|
A Dream of Armageddon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part S4 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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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