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No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper · Eidola

EXERCISE 1 OF 80
Groove Z -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART L
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AI
PART AO
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZDLBAI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-30, toms through bars 31-37, silence through bars 38-39 and snare through bars 40-56, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-46, 48-50 and 52-54, and 3 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40               41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx|-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx|
No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- Z -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-108 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-112 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-52 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper?

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED