War Machine · KISS

111 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 29-31 and 33-34, and 12 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
WAR MACHINE · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28 and 13 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 74 keep time, 19 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-111.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIBHK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Machine?

116 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?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Machine?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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