Apocalypse Please · Muse

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-52 and 71-80 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
APOCALYPSE PLEASE · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 22, 28, 30 and 7 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 16 sections: 52 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-52.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJEGI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apocalypse Please?

80 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 Please hard to play on drums?

60 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Apocalypse Please?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 22, 28, 30 and 7 more.

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