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The Apocalypse · Apace

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Groove G -- Part G
37 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Apocalypse on drums

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.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
87/100

snare through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-78, snare through bars 79-87, toms through bars 88-89 and snare through bars 90-119.

The beat

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.

    91
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Apocalypse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-20 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-44 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-50 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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