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To Hear of War · Counterparts

EXERCISE 10 OF 56
Fill at bar 24 (a small one)
47 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Hear of War on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-44, hi-hat through bars 45-50, snare through bars 51-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----xxxxxx|
To Hear of War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- A, L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-98 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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