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Honour · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Groove F -- Part F
66 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Honour on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 17 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Honour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 56, 72, 88 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-49 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-93 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Honour?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Honour hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Honour?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 32, 48, 56, 72, 88 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED