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The Final War · Times of Desperation

The Final War · Times of Desperation
EXERCISE 21 OF 57
Groove N
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PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART A
PART S
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEACSZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Final War on drums

113 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, snare through bars 37-60, hi-hat through bars 61-84 and toms through bars 85-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 26-27 and 30-31, and 5 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
The Final War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 15, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 30-59 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Final War?

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 The Final War hard to play on drums?

53 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?

113 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Final War?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 15, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED