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Another Holy War · Blind Guardian

EXERCISE 11 OF 70
Join Part C to Part A (bars 3-5)
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0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART A
PART C
PART A
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another Holy War on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-15, snare through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-29, toms through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-46, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Another Holy War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, V -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-17 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-55 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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