Δώσ'τους τον πόλεμο · bad movies

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 17-20 and 28-33, and 6 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
ΔΏΣ'ΤΟΥΣ ΤΟΝ ΠΌΛΕΜΟ · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 26, 34, 37, 50, 62 and 3 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-77.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCFDIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Δώσ'τους τον πόλεμο?

95 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 Δώσ'τους τον πόλεμο hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Δώσ'τους τον πόλεμο?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 26, 34, 37, 50, 62 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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