Apocalypse Dreams · Tame Impala

190 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 25 and 51, and 20 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
APOCALYPSE DREAMS · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 18, 20, 38, 39, 40, 42 and 37 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 19 sections: 59 keep time, 43 are fills, 56 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGAVUS9+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apocalypse Dreams?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Apocalypse Dreams hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Apocalypse Dreams?

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 18, 20, 38, 39, 40, 42 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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