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Cenotaph · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove N -- Part N
74 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cenotaph on drums

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.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
94/100

hi-hat through bars 1-38, ride through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-70, ride through bars 71-78, hi-hat through bars 79-85 and toms through bars 86-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-39 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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