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EXERCISE 17 OF 49
Join Part E to Part K (bars 16-18)
85 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART K
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TV War on drums

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.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
87/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47 and ride through bars 48-69, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
TV War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-102 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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