Riders Of The Apocalypse · 1349

239 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-16, 34-47 and 208-221 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
RIDERS OF THE APOCALYPSE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 52, 60, 65, 109 and 10 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 20 sections: 191 keep time, 16 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesECMNR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riders Of The Apocalypse?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Riders Of The Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Riders Of The Apocalypse?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 52, 60, 65, 109 and 10 more.

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