Engines of War · Benediction

136 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 50-56 and 58-64, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
ENGINES OF WAR · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 25, 29, 33, 37, 40 and 16 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 14 sections: 83 keep time, 22 are fills, 14 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-112.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART AC
PART AA
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEGAABAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Engines of War?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Engines of War hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Engines of War?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 25, 29, 33, 37, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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