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War Is The Answer · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 14 OF 49
Fill at bar 16 (a small one)
106 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
PART Q
PART R
PART K
OUTRO
8 groovesDIQKR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Is The Answer on drums

150 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-46, toms through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-91, 93-95 and 97-99, and 5 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    89
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
War Is The Answer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 40, 47 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- Q, K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-57 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is War Is The Answer?

186 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 The Answer hard to play on drums?

58 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Answer?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 40, 47 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED