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Apocalypse Dreams · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 17 OF 84
Run G1 · Chorus (bars 17-27)
115 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apocalypse Dreams on drums

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.

45 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
190
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-66, silence through bars 67-78, snare through bars 79-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-90, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Apocalypse Dreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- F, U, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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?

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