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War · Sum 41

EXERCISE 12 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
71 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 75 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War on drums

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

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-55, snare through bars 56-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-75.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-75 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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