War Ensemble · Slayer

246 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
WAR ENSEMBLE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 23, 24, 32 and 36 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

246 bars across 26 sections: 165 keep time, 44 are fills, 13 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 164-173.

PART K
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART X
PART K
16 groovesHKQEAB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Ensemble?

205 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 Ensemble hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

246 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 War Ensemble?

23 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 23, 24, 32 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 246 BARS ANALYSED
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