SONG OF THE SWAMP · Wage War

98 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 83-96 -- 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.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SONG OF THE SWAMP · BARS 83-84
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 41, 46, 47, 57, 97 and 1 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 14 sections: 56 keep time, 7 are fills, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-96.

PART A
PART S2
PART N
PART P
PART V
PART Y
PART AE
PART AL
BREAK 2
OUTRO
12 groovesAQS2VAAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SONG OF THE SWAMP?

130 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 SONG OF THE SWAMP hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 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 SONG OF THE SWAMP?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 41, 46, 47, 57, 97 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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