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Our Endless War · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 35 OF 91
12-bar fill at bar 32
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PART B
PART I
PART I
CHORUS
PART AK
PART I
PART I
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART BG
OUTRO
7 groovesZIBAKBG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Our Endless War on drums

157 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-31, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 49 and 56, and 10 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Our Endless War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

31 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 87 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-47 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Our Endless War?

165 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 Our Endless War hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 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 Our Endless War?

31 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 87 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED