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War Is My Shepherd · Exodus

EXERCISE 9 OF 87
Groove H
66 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART J, PART R
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AC
PART AG
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNJXRAR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Is My Shepherd on drums

212 bars at 211 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
211 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
91/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-27, silence through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-41 and ride through bars 42-56, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 12 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
War Is My Shepherd -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 39, 40, 41 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-39 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-42 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is War Is My Shepherd?

211 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is War Is My Shepherd hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

212 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 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 Is My Shepherd?

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 39, 40, 41 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED