Prologue · Apocalyptica

154 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 33-38 and 41-47, and 9 more places -- 62.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 202 BPM
PROLOGUE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 13 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 7 sections: 107 keep time, 19 are fills, 18 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEQSS4B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prologue?

202 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 Prologue hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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 Prologue?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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