Apotheosis · Apotheosis

26 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 0:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
26
LENGTH
0:36
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15 and 18-21 -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
APOTHEOSIS · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 25 and 1 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 25-26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

26 bars across 2 sections: 18 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apotheosis?

175 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 Apotheosis hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

26 bars, about 0:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Apotheosis?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 25 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 26 BARS ANALYSED
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