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EXERCISE 4 OF 94
Fill at bar 80 (a small one)
28 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART AJ
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Of Being on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, toms through bars 21-35, snare through bars 36-69, silence through bars 70-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-80, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    119                                              120
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x--x--------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x--x--------|
SD |------------------x--------g--g--------------gg-|------g--g--------x-----------g--g--------------|
BD |x--------------x-----------------------x--------|x--------------x-----------------------x--------|
HF |g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----|g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----|
War Of Being -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- BA (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CT, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part AJ -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-51 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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