7th Offensive · Bolt Thrower

222 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 6:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 39-45 and 63-69, and 10 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
7TH OFFENSIVE · BAR 111
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 6, 14, 22, 46, 54, 62 and 17 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

222 bars across 24 sections: 155 keep time, 23 are fills, 15 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 208-222.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHECAAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 7th Offensive?

138 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 7th Offensive hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 7th Offensive?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 6, 14, 22, 46, 54, 62 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED
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