Cenotaph · Bolt Thrower

157 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7-9, and 28 more places -- 42.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
CENOTAPH · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 46, 54, 72 and 16 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 13 sections: 102 keep time, 22 are fills, 12 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAFNLS12+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cenotaph?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cenotaph hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 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 Cenotaph?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 46, 54, 72 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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