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My Apocalypse · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 24 OF 77
Groove Q
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART S13
PART V
PART AA
PART AC
PART AG
CHORUS 5
14 groovesFKVHAC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Apocalypse on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-53, snare through bars 54-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 35-40 and 59-64, and 4 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 41, 53, 65, 73, 93 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-18 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-34 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Apocalypse?

118 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 My Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Apocalypse?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 41, 53, 65, 73, 93 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED