War Machine · Lorna Shore

130 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47 and 49, and 2 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
WAR MACHINE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 59 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 31-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 16 sections: 31 keep time, 65 are fills, 7 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-118.

COUNT-IN
PART J
PART W
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAFWJABC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Machine?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Machine?

15 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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