Apocalyptic Premonition · Analepsy

119 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 57-63 and 93 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
APOCALYPTIC PREMONITION · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 13, 17, 18, 26, 30 and 18 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 15 sections: 61 keep time, 24 are fills, 9 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-105.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
PART J
CHORUS
PART H
PART W
PART S
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLJHWS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apocalyptic Premonition?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Apocalyptic Premonition hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Apocalyptic Premonition?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 13, 17, 18, 26, 30 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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