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Anthems of Apocalypse · Winds of Plague

Anthems of Apocalypse · Winds of Plague
EXERCISE 5 OF 69
Groove H -- Part H
31 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART J
CHORUS
PART H
PART S10
PART H
PART J
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAS10HJAN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anthems of Apocalypse on drums

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

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-70 and silence through bars 71-100, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    129
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Anthems of Apocalypse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-26 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-61 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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