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War · Heaven Pierce Her

EXERCISE 8 OF 38
Groove F
133 / 270 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART G
PART J
PART N
PART P
PART R
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART J
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesTDGJN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War on drums

270 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 12:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
12:44
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-270.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 111-113, 115-117 and 119-121, and 9 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    111
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
HH |o-----x-----o-----------o-----x-----|
SD |X-----------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
FT |x-----------------------------------|
BD |X-----------------------------------|
HF |------------------g-----------------|
War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-16 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is War?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

270 bars, about 12:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 270 BARS ANALYSED