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War? · System of a Down

EXERCISE 7 OF 25
Groove D
40 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART E
PART B
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS8LBCS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War? on drums

129 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-57, snare through bars 58-66, silence through bars 67-113, hi-hat through bars 114-121 and snare through bars 122-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17 and 34-41 -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |----o-o-o-o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-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 4 times: bars 43, 44, 61 and 125.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-33 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-113 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is War??

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is War? hard to play on drums?

47 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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??

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 44, 61 and 125.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED