Anthems of Apocalypse · Winds of Plague

224 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 129-132 and 161-168, and 3 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
ANTHEMS OF APOCALYPSE · BAR 129
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 25, 69, 128, 144 and 1 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 24 sections: 136 keep time, 7 are fills, 36 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 208-223.

CHORUS
PART S10
PART H
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAS10HJAN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anthems of Apocalypse?

145 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 Anthems of Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Anthems of Apocalypse?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 25, 69, 128, 144 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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