Armageddon · Alkaline Trio

133 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 23 more places -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 192 BPM
ARMAGEDDON · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 36, 43, 44, 51, 52 and 21 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 5 sections: 87 keep time, 27 are fills, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-114.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Armageddon?

192 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 Armageddon hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Armageddon?

6 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 36, 43, 44, 51, 52 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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