Anti Tank (Dead Armour) · Bolt Thrower

130 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-22, 24-32 and 44-52, and 4 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
ANTI TANK (DEAD ARMOUR) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 33, 43, 65, 67, 69 and 5 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 9 sections: 101 keep time, 11 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-129.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesCEIBS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Anti Tank (Dead Armour)?

127 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 Anti Tank (Dead Armour) hard to play on drums?

61 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Anti Tank (Dead Armour)?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 33, 43, 65, 67, 69 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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