War in the Pocket · ...and its name was Epyon

115 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 31 and 37, and 6 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
WAR IN THE POCKET · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 27 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 13 sections: 49 keep time, 33 are fills, 3 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-35.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART J
BREAK
PART S9
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBWJKS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War in the Pocket?

175 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 in the Pocket hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 in the Pocket?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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