Where Next To Conquer · Bolt Thrower

195 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-40 and 131-146, and 1 more place -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 215 BPM
WHERE NEXT TO CONQUER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 48, 54, 58, 66, 82 and 8 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 21 sections: 128 keep time, 14 are fills, 28 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-81.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
12 groovesICDS21S11+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Next To Conquer?

215 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Where Next To Conquer hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Where Next To Conquer?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 48, 54, 58, 66, 82 and 8 more.

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