The Apocalypse · Apace

119 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-20 and 47-49, and 8 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THE APOCALYPSE · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 78, 94, 98, 102, 106, 110 and 2 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 13 sections: 94 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-44.

BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
9 groovesDGFS2A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Apocalypse?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

119 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 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 The Apocalypse?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 78, 94, 98, 102, 106, 110 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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