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Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare · ORBITAL GATE

EXERCISE 20 OF 89
Groove O -- Part O
86 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART Q
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART O
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-37 and snare through bars 38-40, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    94
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-51 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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