Eve Of The War · Alchemist

136 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-14, 16-20 and 26-30, and 4 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EVE OF THE WAR · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 15, 129, 131, 133, 135 and 136.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 131 · LANDS ON BAR 132
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 135-136 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 16 sections: 88 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-62.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesBIMES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eve Of The War?

140 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 Eve Of The War hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Eve Of The War?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 15, 129, 131, 133, 135 and 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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