My Apocalypse · Metallica

240 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-41, 43 and 45, and 18 more places -- 55% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 188 BPM
MY APOCALYPSE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 47, 48, 54, 78, 79, 85 and 15 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 184 · LANDS ON BAR 185 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 189 · LANDS ON BAR 190 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 19 sections: 172 keep time, 22 are fills, 27 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-175.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCJMD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Apocalypse?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 My Apocalypse?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 47, 48, 54, 78, 79, 85 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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