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Worth Fighting For · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 12 OF 38
Join Chorus 2 to Part F (bars 59-61)
115 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART F
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEDFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Worth Fighting For on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, ride through bars 61-72, hi-hat through bars 73-80 and ride through bars 81-116, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-31 and 45-59 -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|x---------x---x-|
Worth Fighting For -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 80, 88, 90, 100 and 124.

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 -- A, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-81 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-72 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 65-81 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 98-120 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Worth Fighting For?

120 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 Worth Fighting For hard to play on drums?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Worth Fighting For?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 72, 80, 88, 90, 100 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED