Armageddon · Fanáticos del acero

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
ARMAGEDDON · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 22, 26, 34, 38, 42 and 16 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 16 sections: 70 keep time, 22 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART R
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFIDRZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Armageddon?

103 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?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Armageddon?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 22, 26, 34, 38, 42 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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