Pure Fucking Armageddon · Mayhem

88 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-24, 36-50 and 70-81 -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
PURE FUCKING ARMAGEDDON · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 68 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-69.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGS1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pure Fucking Armageddon?

220 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 Pure Fucking Armageddon hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Pure Fucking Armageddon?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

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