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Where Next To Conquer · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 37 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART C
12 groovesICDS21S11+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Next To Conquer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----------x---|
Where Next To Conquer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-52 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S8 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 101-172 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED