TV War · Accept

117 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 28-30, and 17 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
TV WAR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 36 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 11-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 44 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBEKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is TV War?

145 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 TV War hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in TV War?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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