The IVth crusade · Bolt Thrower

173 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 35 more places -- 22% 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
THE IVTH CRUSADE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 41, 49, 57 and 25 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 13 sections: 127 keep time and 31 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-173.

PART A
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGCAP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The IVth crusade?

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 The IVth crusade hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 The IVth crusade?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 41, 49, 57 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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