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Lest We Forget... · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 21 OF 69
Join Part F to Part D (bars 33-35)
117 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART D
PART F
PART D
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lest We Forget... on drums

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.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
95/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-58, hi-hat through bars 59-90, ride through bars 91-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-114, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    61
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Lest We Forget... -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-26 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-59 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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