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Battle · Overkill

EXERCISE 30 OF 88
Groove P
99 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART W
PART AB
PART AG
PART AI
OUTRO
15 groovesMABQWAG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Battle on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-15, toms through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25 and ride through bars 26-28, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 49-51, and 8 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-------x--x--x-|
Battle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 23, 29, 32 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- M, AB -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-10 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Battle?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 23, 29, 32 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED