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Horsemen of the Apocalypse · Resurgence

EXERCISE 6 OF 59
Groove D
36 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART AC
PART AM
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCAMACWP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Horsemen of the Apocalypse on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-19, hi-hat through bars 20-23, snare through bars 24-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-31, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 64 and 95, and 3 more places -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    100
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 30, 31, 34, 35, 37, 44 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- W, AM -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-24 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-29 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-47 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

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 Horsemen of the Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 30, 31, 34, 35, 37, 44 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED