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Those Once Loyal · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 22 OF 50
Groove M
96 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Those Once Loyal on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, ride through bars 20-35, hi-hat through bars 36-51, ride through bars 52-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-99, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
T1 |----------------|----------xx----|
T2 |----------------|------------xx--|
FT |----------------|--------------xx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Those Once Loyal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-68 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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