Exercise For Warriors · Bass Exercises

34 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
34
LENGTH
1:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-9 and 11, and 4 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EXERCISE FOR WARRIORS · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 19.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

34 bars across 3 sections: 25 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exercise For Warriors?

120 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 Exercise For Warriors hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

34 bars, about 1:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Exercise For Warriors?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 19.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 34 BARS ANALYSED
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