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

INSTRUMENT OF WAR · PALEFACE SWISS FEAT. STICK TO YOUR GUNS
EXERCISE 20 OF 48
Join Chorus to Part O (bars 22-24)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
CHORUS
PART O
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play INSTRUMENT OF WAR on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-35, hi-hat through bars 36-39, snare through bars 40-46 and toms through bars 47-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |----------------x---x-----------|
INSTRUMENT OF WAR -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- AA, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-28 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-36 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-48 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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