War Master · Bolt Thrower

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 33 and 35, and 8 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
WAR MASTER · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15 and 22 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 28-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 11 sections: 41 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-74.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
PART T
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHFPCU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Master?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 War Master hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in War Master?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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