start a war · jennie

86 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-30, 35-44 and 47-70 -- 89.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
START A WAR · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-30.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS8AS3S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is start a war?

128 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 start a war hard to play on drums?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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