Apollo · Crystal Lake

244 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 107-113, 115-120 and 196-202, and 1 more place -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
APOLLO · BAR 107
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 30, 40, 43 and 39 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 20 sections: 75 keep time, 45 are fills, 63 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-113.

COUNT-IN
PART N
PART AD
CHORUS
PART S16
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAOS17ABS16+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apollo?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Apollo hard to play on drums?

49 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Apollo?

21 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 30, 40, 43 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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