War · Edwin Starr

14 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 0:31 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
14
LENGTH
0:31
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3 and 5-12 -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
WAR · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

14 bars across 2 sections: 12 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-14.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War?

112 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 hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

14 bars, about 0:31 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 14 BARS ANALYSED
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