Those Once Loyal · Bolt Thrower

140 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 9 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
THOSE ONCE LOYAL · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 31 and 20 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 10 sections: 98 keep time, 26 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-98.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBKSA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Those Once Loyal?

144 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 Those Once Loyal hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Those Once Loyal?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 31 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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