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No Guts, No Glory · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 6 OF 40
Groove D
91 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART S7
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEKOS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Guts, No Glory on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 2-73, ride through bars 74-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 8 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
No Guts, No Glory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 29, 41, 45, 53 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 33-74 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part S7 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-94 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Guts, No Glory?

130 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 No Guts, No Glory hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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 No Guts, No Glory?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 13, 29, 41, 45, 53 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED