War Of Being · Tesseract

244 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 11:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
11:42
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 119-120, 123-124 and 135-136, and 2 more places -- 5.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
WAR OF BEING · BARS 119-120
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 34, 35, 50, 56, 62, 68 and 33 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 19 sections: 127 keep time, 39 are fills, 10 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-33.

PART R
PART AB
PART AJ
PART BF
CHORUS
PART S17
OUTRO
16 groovesBSS17AJCTB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Of Being?

85 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 Of Being hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 11:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Of Being?

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 34, 35, 50, 56, 62, 68 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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