INSTRUMENT OF WAR · PALEFACE SWISS FEAT. STICK TO YOUR GUNS

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 61 and 65-66, and 3 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
INSTRUMENT OF WAR · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 11 sections: 40 keep time, 21 are fills, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-84.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART O
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAAAOAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is INSTRUMENT OF WAR?

105 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 INSTRUMENT OF WAR hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 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 INSTRUMENT OF WAR?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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