Dying Creed · Bolt Thrower

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalPunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 18-20 and 22, and 3 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DYING CREED · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 20 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 24 keep time, 26 are fills and 15 are stops.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
PART M
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCLHEP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dying Creed?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dying Creed hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dying Creed?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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