Doomsday · Architects

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 18 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DOOMSDAY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 12, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 20 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 27-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 53-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 10 sections: 75 keep time, 26 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-96.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART V
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBACVAFS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doomsday?

90 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 Doomsday hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:36 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, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Doomsday?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 12, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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