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

War in the Pocket · ...and its name was Epyon
EXERCISE 8 OF 69
Groove C -- Part C
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War in the Pocket on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-22, snare through bars 23-35, hi-hat through bars 36-48 and snare through bars 49-57, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|
War in the Pocket -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- J, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-41 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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