War Eternal (Drop C) · Arch Enemy

161 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 11 and 13-19, and 7 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
WAR ETERNAL (DROP C) · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 32, 64 and 10 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 22 sections: 117 keep time, 16 are fills, 12 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-48.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART G
12 groovesAGCPT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Eternal (Drop C)?

155 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 Eternal (Drop C) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 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 Eternal (Drop C)?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 28, 32, 64 and 10 more.

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