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Eve Of The War · Alchemist

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EXERCISE 8 OF 33
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
76 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART E
CHORUS 6
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesBIMES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eve Of The War on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-44, snare through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-94, snare through bars 95-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-127, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10                                               11
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |o--o--o-----o-----o-----o--o--o-----o-----o-----|o--o--o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-x-x-------x-----------x-----------x-----|x-----x-x-x-------x-----x-----x-x-x-------x-----|
Eve Of The War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 31-47 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-125 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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