War Machine · AC/DC

100 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-60 and 77-100 -- 66% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
WAR MACHINE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 76.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 5 sections: 89 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-62.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Machine?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is War Machine hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Machine?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 76.

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