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Armageddon · Armed Raid

Armageddon · Armed Raid
EXERCISE 10 OF 66
Fill at bar 38, 99 and 124 (a small one)
57 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Armageddon on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-17, snare through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-89 and snare through bars 90-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Armageddon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-44 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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