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Eternal War · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHALCPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternal War on drums

110 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
95/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-76, toms through bars 77-78, hi-hat through bars 79-94 and kick and crashes through bars 95-99, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Eternal War -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 36, 40, 66 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eternal War?

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

Is Eternal War hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Eternal War?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 36, 40, 66 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED