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Alliance Or War · Malevolent Creation

EXERCISE 5 OF 93
Groove G -- Part G
35 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART W
PART AL
CHORUS 2
BREAK
11 groovesBWALS16G+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 12
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alliance Or War on drums

167 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
83/100

snare through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-37, ride through bars 38-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-73, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-68, 70-72 and 82-84, and 3 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Alliance Or War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- W -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alliance Or War?

220 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 Alliance Or War hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 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 Alliance Or War?

23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED