Armageddon · Armed Raid

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-16, 20-22 and 24, and 6 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ARMAGEDDON · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 17, 18 and 31 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 14 sections: 68 keep time, 37 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-89.

CHORUS
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART X
PART N
PART R
PART AC
OUTRO
8 groovesGNRXAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Armageddon?

100 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 Armageddon hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Armageddon?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 17, 18 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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