Apocalypse Dreams · Tame Impala

193 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 26 more places -- 16.1% 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 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 39, 43, 45, 49, 83, 85 and 23 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 95-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 8 sections: 75 keep time, 29 are fills, 72 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-19.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFBS6S1Fill 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?

48 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 39, 43, 45, 49, 83, 85 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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