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Engines of War · Benediction

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Engines of War on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-39, toms through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-73 and snare through bars 74-77, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Engines of War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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