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At First Light · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove J -- Part J
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play At First Light on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-33 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-60 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 92-107 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-119 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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