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Suspect Hostile · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 17 OF 67
Groove J -- Part J
102 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suspect Hostile on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and toms through bars 49-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Suspect Hostile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- S, V -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-22 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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