At War With My Soul · Fleshgod Apocalypse

132 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21 and 24-25, and 5 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
AT WAR WITH MY SOUL · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 34, 35, 36 and 21 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 11 sections: 91 keep time, 27 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-22.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AC
OUTRO
6 groovesNJACAS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is At War With My Soul?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 At War With My Soul hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 At War With My Soul?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 34, 35, 36 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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