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Apostasy · Living Sacrifice

Apostasy · Living Sacrifice
EXERCISE 24 OF 77
Fill at bar 80 and 88 (a small one)
203 / 282 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apostasy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-37, silence through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-75, ride through bars 76-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-132, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x-----------|
BD |------x-----|
Apostasy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- B, I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-58 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-85 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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