War Time Poem · Tigran Hamasyan

107 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 48 and 6 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 12 are fills, 4 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-103.

PART F
PART N
PART S
PART AG
PART AO
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesS8NAOSAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Time Poem?

148 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 Time Poem hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Time Poem?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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