At War With Reality · At The Gates

105 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-35 and 37-39, and 6 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
AT WAR WITH REALITY · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 10 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 16 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBGLNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is At War With Reality?

140 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 Reality hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

105 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 At War With Reality?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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