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War Time Poem · Tigran Hamasyan

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Time Poem on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-26, ride through bars 27-36 and snare through bars 37-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 24-26 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16                                       17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5....... 1.......2.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x---|--------x-------|
War Time Poem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- N, L (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part AG -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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