Lest We Forget... · Bolt Thrower

187 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 61 and 63, and 23 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
LEST WE FORGET... · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 34, 54, 58, 62, 74 and 14 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 20 sections: 127 keep time, 20 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-177.

PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesWEGDN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lest We Forget...?

180 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 Lest We Forget... hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Lest We Forget...?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 34, 54, 58, 62, 74 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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