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The Tales of War (human transcription) · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDLBS1AE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Tales of War (human transcription) on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-144, snare through bars 145-147 and toms through bars 148-149.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 65 and 67, and 18 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    67
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
The Tales of War (human transcription) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 140, 145, 146, 147, 148 and 149.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-47 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Tales of War (human transcription)?

120 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 The Tales of War (human transcription) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 The Tales of War (human transcription)?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 140, 145, 146, 147, 148 and 149.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED