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Pride · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART C
PART R
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGS16BCR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pride on drums

210 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-118, silence through bars 119-125, hi-hat through bars 126-166 and silence through bars 167-207, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 26-32 and 56-68, and 4 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Pride -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-23 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-54 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-108 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 106-126 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 125-147 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 140-161 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pride?

125 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 Pride hard to play on drums?

58 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 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pride?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED