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Apotheosis · Lorna Shore

EXERCISE 15 OF 92
Groove E -- Outro
66 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDMEQJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apotheosis on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bars 1-35, snare through bars 36-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-48, ride through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 17 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Apotheosis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 26, 27, 31 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-133 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-39 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Apotheosis?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Apotheosis hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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?

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 26, 27, 31 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED