Entrenched · Bolt Thrower

163 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 33-39 and 49-63, and 3 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ENTRENCHED · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 14 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 10 sections: 117 keep time, 20 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-121.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFMQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Entrenched?

180 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 Entrenched hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 Entrenched?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 14 more.

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