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Anti Tank (Dead Armour) · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Groove D
110 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Anti Tank (Dead Armour) on drums

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.

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

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

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-33, snare through bars 34-43, ride through bars 44-57, snare through bars 58-65 and kick and crashes through bars 66-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Anti Tank (Dead Armour) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 32-57 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-106 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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