Apparitions · Mortal Decay

242 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 7:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 23-35 and 44, and 21 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
APPARITIONS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 50, 51, 54, 55, 66, 67 and 44 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 66-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 21 sections: 143 keep time, 50 are fills, 15 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 201-224.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AL
CHORUS 3
PART BC
OUTRO
15 groovesEBCDABAL+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Apparitions?

125 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 Apparitions hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 19 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 Apparitions?

23 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 50, 51, 54, 55, 66, 67 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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