Another Holy War · Blind Guardian

213 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 10-14 and 25, and 18 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 192 BPM
ANOTHER HOLY WAR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 15, 30, 35, 43, 45, 46 and 27 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 20 sections: 125 keep time, 33 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-91.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART V
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
6 groovesDIVAEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Holy War?

192 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 Another Holy War hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Another Holy War?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 15, 30, 35, 43, 45, 46 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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