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Apocalypse Dreams · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove B -- Part B
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apocalypse Dreams on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 2-67, silence through bars 68-79, hi-hat through bars 80-95, ride through bars 96-97, hi-hat through bars 98-139 and toms through bars 140-141, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x-----x-|
Apocalypse Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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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