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War Eternal (Drop C) · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 20 OF 46
Groove O
129 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART C
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART G
PART C
12 groovesAGCPT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Eternal (Drop C) on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, toms through bars 37-40, snare through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
War Eternal (Drop C) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-50 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-49 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-91 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 90-100 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse and the Chorus 5 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED