If You Want Peace... Prepare For War · Children Of Bodom

165 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 43 and 63, and 9 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
IF YOU WANT PEACE... PREPARE FOR WAR · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 22 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 17 sections: 105 keep time, 28 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART H
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
9 groovesBKDHN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If You Want Peace... Prepare For War?

170 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 If You Want Peace... Prepare For War hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 If You Want Peace... Prepare For War?

20 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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