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7th Offensive · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove H -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 7th Offensive on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46, ride through bars 47-62, hi-hat through bars 63-86 and ride through bars 87-101, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-x-x---x-|
7th Offensive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-95 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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