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Apocalypse Please · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove J -- Part J
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apocalypse Please on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-26, toms through bars 27-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-38, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 22, 28, 30 and 7 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-19 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-27 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED