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War Is Hell · Toxic Holocaust

War Is Hell · Toxic Holocaust
EXERCISE 19 OF 26
Run E2 · Part E (bars 29-40)
70 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesGEAVS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Is Hell on drums

92 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-20, and 5 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
War Is Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 76-90 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is War Is Hell?

200 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 Is Hell hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.

How many fills are in War Is Hell?

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED