Apostasy · Living Sacrifice

282 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 6:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13 and 15, and 41 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
APOSTASY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 76, 78, 80 and 24 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

282 bars across 14 sections: 84 keep time, 30 are fills, 150 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART I
PART R
PART K
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBKIVAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apostasy?

145 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Apostasy hard to play on drums?

51 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

282 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Apostasy?

19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 76, 78, 80 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED
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