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War Machine · Six Feet Under

EXERCISE 17 OF 19
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 13-80)
96 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Machine on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-80, silence through bars 81-84, toms through bars 85-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-112.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
War Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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