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Harmageddon · Apocalyptica

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove AC -- Part AC
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0 / 47 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB, PART AC
PART E
PART J
PART S
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesVEACADAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Harmageddon on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-32, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86-101 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Harmageddon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- AC, E -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-77 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Harmageddon?

125 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 Harmageddon hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Harmageddon?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED