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The Tales Of War · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 10 OF 62
Groove H -- Part H
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
PART D
PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
9 groovesBS1DEM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Tales Of War on drums

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

67 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
67/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-44, toms through bars 45-48 and snare through bars 49-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 25 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    65
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
The Tales Of War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-41 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Tales Of War?

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 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 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 50 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Tales Of War?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54 and 15 more.

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