Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare · ORBITAL GATE

216 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 21 and 24, and 6 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
DEMONSTRATION OF POST APOCALYPTIC WARFARE · BAR 94
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 29, 64, 65, 72, 73 and 20 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 19 sections: 132 keep time, 26 are fills, 29 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-107.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART AC
PART S16
PART AL
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEAHALS16+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 29, 64, 65, 72, 73 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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