World Eater · Bolt Thrower

207 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-22, 32-34 and 36-40, and 16 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WORLD EATER · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 23, 25 and 34 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 13 sections: 123 keep time, 40 are fills, 30 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-206.

CHORUS
PART R
PART S8
OUTRO 2
9 groovesERAES8P+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is World Eater?

140 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 World Eater hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 World Eater?

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 23, 25 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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