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War · Burzum

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 12 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
6 groovesCAS1S5S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War on drums

107 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-59, silence through bars 60-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 11 more places -- 79.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 10-68 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is War?

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

Is War hard to play on drums?

52 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 War?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED