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Holy War · Thy Art Is Murder

EXERCISE 19 OF 56
Groove P -- Part P
70 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
PART J
PART P
PART R
PART Y
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
10 groovesWBJYG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy War on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, toms through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-51, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 11 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--------------------x-----x----x-------------------------------|
Holy War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- D, W -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-36 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holy War?

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 Holy War hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Holy War?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED