War Machine · Six Feet Under

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13-19 and 21-27, and 10 more places -- 73.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 106 BPM
WAR MACHINE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28 and 9 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 6 sections: 57 keep time, 15 are fills, 30 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Machine?

106 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?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 28 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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