To Hear of War · Counterparts

104 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 7, and 11 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
TO HEAR OF WAR · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 21 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 15 sections: 45 keep time, 27 are fills, 15 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-8.

PART A
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART S
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesLAHSAC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Hear of War?

150 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 To Hear of 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 To Hear of War?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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