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Warriors · Freedom Call
EXERCISE 27 OF 58
Join Chorus to Part O (bars 25-27)
72 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART O
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHOBZF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Warriors on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and ride through bars 51-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-31, 51-52 and 54-55, and 4 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Warriors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 14, 18 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- O, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-15 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-57 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Warriors?

95 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 Warriors hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Warriors?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 14, 18 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED