At First Light · Bolt Thrower

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 57-63, and 2 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
AT FIRST LIGHT · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 14 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time, 22 are fills, 16 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART J
PART Y
OUTRO
8 groovesEJUNS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is At First Light?

80 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 At First Light 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 At First Light?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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