Drive · Apocalyptica

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 27-36 and 41-48, and 1 more place -- 64.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DRIVE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 74.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-73.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDEFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drive?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Drive hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Drive?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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