War (Cover) · Ultrakill

251 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 11:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
11:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 111-113, 115 and 117, and 17 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WAR (COVER) · BARS 111-112
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 16, 18, 22, 26, 28, 30 and 86 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 19 sections: 92 keep time, 92 are fills, 41 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

PART D
PART T
PART N
CHORUS
PART AU
PART N
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAJDNAFAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War (Cover)?

80 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 War (Cover) hard to play on drums?

54 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 11:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 War (Cover)?

31 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 16, 18, 22, 26, 28, 30 and 86 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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