Suspect Hostile · Bolt Thrower

185 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-79, 81-87 and 105-111, and 1 more place -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SUSPECT HOSTILE · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 13 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 14 sections: 126 keep time, 19 are fills, 11 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-87.

PART J
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART X
OUTRO
11 groovesSLVXJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suspect Hostile?

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 Suspect Hostile hard to play on drums?

55 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 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 Suspect Hostile?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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