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Remembrance · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 20 OF 53
Run G1 · Part G (bars 26-35)
336 / 368 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART C
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
9 groovesVJCRG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Remembrance on drums

368 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 7:45 of it without a break -- 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
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
368
LENGTH
7:45
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-105, silence through bars 106-107 and kick and crashes through bars 108-109, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 113-115, 117-119 and 121-123, and 61 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    113              114
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x---|----------------|
BD |x-------x-------|------------x---|
Remembrance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 39 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- V, X -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-76 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 32-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Remembrance?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Remembrance 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

368 bars, about 7:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Remembrance?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 39 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 368 BARS ANALYSED