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EXERCISE 4 OF 54
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Armageddon on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, toms through bars 6-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and ride through bars 35-42, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|x--x--x----x--x-|
Armageddon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, D -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-22 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-38 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-67 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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