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Apollo · Crystal Lake

EXERCISE 27 OF 82
Hold Groove I for 8 bars -- Part I (bars 37-44)
103 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
COUNT-IN
PART I
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apollo on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-33, silence through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, toms through bars 43-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-50, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    107
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Apollo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AO, V -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-41 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 63-79 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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