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Barstool Warrior · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 14 OF 92
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
40 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART AW
PART S14
OUTRO
BREAK 2
15 groovesS16ADBDEAW+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Barstool Warrior on drums

201 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 6:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and ride through bars 33-37, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 111-113 and 115-125 -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    111
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----x-x-----|
Barstool Warrior -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 37 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- AW -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-18 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Barstool Warrior?

156 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Barstool Warrior hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 21 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 Barstool Warrior?

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 37 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED