War · Sum 41

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-17, 19-26 and 28-38, and 2 more places -- 87.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
WAR · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 27 and 39.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 4 sections: 66 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War?

92 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 hard to play on drums?

50 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in War?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 27 and 39.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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