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My War · Black Flag

EXERCISE 24 OF 36
Join Chorus 2 to Part K (bars 83-85)
139 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART K
PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFANKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My War on drums

176 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, toms through bars 49-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-61, hi-hat through bars 62-86, toms through bars 87-92 and kick and crashes through bars 93-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30, 32-38 and 40-46, and 6 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
My War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 23, 48, 49, 50, 52 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-79 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-97 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My War?

186 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 My War hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 My War?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 23, 48, 49, 50, 52 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED