Cereal Wars · AFI

51 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 1:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
1:31
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-23, 25 and 27, and 6 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CEREAL WARS · BARS 15-16
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 36, 37 and 38.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 3 sections: 38 keep time, 6 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-34.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cereal Wars?

135 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 Cereal Wars hard to play on drums?

64 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 1:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Cereal Wars?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 36, 37 and 38.

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