The IVth Crusade (my version) · Bolt Thrower

174 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 31 more places -- 19.5% 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
THE IVTH CRUSADE (MY VERSION) · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 41, 49, 57 and 24 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 13 sections: 127 keep time, 30 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-173.

PART B
PART E
PART I
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNIBEQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The IVth Crusade (my version)?

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 (my version) hard to play on drums?

66 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?

174 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 (my version)?

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 41, 49, 57 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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