For Victory · Bolt Thrower

192 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 19 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
FOR VICTORY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 56, 60 and 9 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 13 sections: 135 keep time, 15 are fills, 32 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
PART J
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJEHS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Victory?

155 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 For Victory hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 For Victory?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 56, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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