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Holy Wars... The Punishment Due · Megadeath

EXERCISE 10 OF 86
Groove F -- Part F
105 / 253 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AR
PART AT
OUTRO
22 groovesEARAVATG+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy Wars... The Punishment Due on drums

253 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-95, silence through bars 96-101, toms through bars 102-108 and silence through bars 109-114, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-34, 58-59 and 63-65, and 4 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x---xx--x-|
Holy Wars... The Punishment Due -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 49, 50, 51 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR, AT -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-70 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-95 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holy Wars... The Punishment Due?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Holy Wars... The Punishment Due hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wars... The Punishment Due?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 49, 50, 51 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED