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start a war · jennie

start a war · jennie
EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 8 PASSED · 62 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS8AS3S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play start a war on drums

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

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 3-30, silence through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-70, kick and crashes through bars 71-75 and silence through bars 76-86.

The beat

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.

    3                        4
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x---------x-|
BD |x---------------------x-|x-----x---------x-------|
start a war -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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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