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Battle Hymn · Manowar

EXERCISE 11 OF 45
Join Part E to Part G (bars 27-29)
86 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
PART S2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART U
CHORUS 4
12 groovesIGES9S2+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battle Hymn on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-52 and toms through bars 53-54, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-------x-x-x-------x-x-|
Battle Hymn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 52, 53, 54 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S9 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Battle Hymn?

95 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 Battle Hymn hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Battle Hymn?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 52, 53, 54 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED