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Prisoner Of War · All Shall Perish

EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Groove T -- Outro
57 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART I
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCBTIS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prisoner Of War on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-38, hi-hat through bars 39-44, ride through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-50 and toms through bars 51-54, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14, 19 and 23, and 11 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    93                               94
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
RD |--------------------------------|--------------------------X-X-x-|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Prisoner Of War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 42, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 53.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prisoner Of War?

120 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 Prisoner Of War hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Prisoner Of War?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 42, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED