The River · Wage War

137 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THE RIVER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 23, 24, 30 and 21 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 18 sections: 62 keep time, 27 are fills, 23 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-42.

PART D
PART E
BREAK 2
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesRES18DF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The River?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The River hard to play on drums?

48 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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 River?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 23, 24, 30 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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