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Soldiers of the Wasteland · DragonForce

EXERCISE 31 OF 111
Groove Q -- Part Q
252 / 448 BARS COVERED
0 / 111 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART Q
PART Q
PART Q
PART Q
PART AG
24 groovesEVSHAG+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 21
LINK · 13
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soldiers of the Wasteland on drums

448 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 8:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
448
LENGTH
8:58
DIFFICULTY
93/100

silence through bars 1-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-26, silence through bars 27-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-61, and 40 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48, 50-56 and 62-64, and 19 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Soldiers of the Wasteland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 41, 49, 57, 59, 65, 72 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-74 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-159 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-98 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Soldiers of the Wasteland?

200 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 Soldiers of the Wasteland hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

448 bars, about 8:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 22 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 Soldiers of the Wasteland?

28 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 41, 49, 57, 59, 65, 72 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 448 BARS ANALYSED