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Pure Fucking Armageddon · Mayhem

EXERCISE 7 OF 15
Join Chorus to Break (bars 24-26)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGS1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pure Fucking Armageddon on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-13 and hi-hat through bars 14-88.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Pure Fucking Armageddon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-69 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED