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My Apocalypse · Metallica

EXERCISE 26 OF 46
Join Part P to Part Q (bars 138-140)
202 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART Q
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART P
PART Q
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCJMD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Apocalypse on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
83/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, snare through bars 49-55, hi-hat through bars 56-79 and snare through bars 80-86, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xx---x--xx---|
My Apocalypse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 47, 48, 54, 78, 79, 85 and 15 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-91 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 138-144 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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