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War · Yungblud

EXERCISE 15 OF 22
Fill at bar 56 (a small one)
67 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 25-33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 38, 48, 56, 60, 67 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-50 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is War?

80 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?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in War?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 38, 48, 56, 60, 67 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED