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This War Is Ours · Escape The Fate

EXERCISE 18 OF 75
Join Part K to Chorus (bars 37-39)
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0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
14 groovesNHKAEAB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This War Is Ours on drums

200 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-45, snare through bars 46-47, hi-hat through bars 48-53 and snare through bars 54-56, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 28-34 and 46, and 4 more places -- 16.8% 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-|
This War Is Ours -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 18, 19, 27, 53, 54 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-38 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This War Is Ours?

186 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 This War Is Ours hard to play on drums?

61 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 This War Is Ours?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 18, 19, 27, 53, 54 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED