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Towards the war · Winter Downfall

Towards the war · Winter Downfall
EXERCISE 17 OF 63
Fill at bar 17
118 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART F
PART N
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
11 groovesYNPHB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Towards the war on drums

167 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-59, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94-100, 102-106 and 126-135, and 3 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    94
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x-----------x---|
Towards the war -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 17, 37, 75, 92, 93 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-19 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 14-38 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Towards the war?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Towards the war hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Towards the war?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 17, 37, 75, 92, 93 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED