Apostrophe' · Frank Zappa, Jack Bruce, Jim Gordon

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 5:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 35 and 49, and 8 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
APOSTROPHE' · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 53 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 2-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 12 sections: 53 keep time and 59 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-57.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART AN
PART AB
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOAABANAE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apostrophe'?

84 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Apostrophe' hard to play on drums?

55 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Apostrophe'?

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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