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At War With Reality · At The Gates

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play At War With Reality on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
86/100

snare through bars 1-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-56, ride through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-105.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
At War With Reality -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-28 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-58 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-68 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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