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Prologue · Apocalyptica

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEQSS4B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prologue on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, silence through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Prologue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-81 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-146 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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