Run! Apocalypse! Run! · Ayreon

231 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-45, 51-66 and 69-71, and 4 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 260 BPM
RUN! APOCALYPSE! RUN! · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 39, 50 and 51 more.

LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

231 bars across 18 sections: 99 keep time, 57 are fills, 34 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-34.

PART S1
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART S14
PART AU
OUTRO 2
14 groovesMIS14BDAU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Run! Apocalypse! Run!?

260 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 Run! Apocalypse! Run! hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Run! Apocalypse! Run!?

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 39, 50 and 51 more.

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