unknown apocalypse · Bernard Gervais Burnz

48 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:36 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
11/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 12 and 20, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
UNKNOWN APOCALYPSE · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 5 sections: 37 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-37.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGABCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is unknown apocalypse?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 unknown apocalypse hard to play on drums?

11 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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