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World Eater · Bolt Thrower

EXERCISE 7 OF 68
Groove AE -- Part AE
96 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AE
CHORUS
PART R
PART S8
PART AE
PART AE
OUTRO 2
9 groovesERAES8P+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play World Eater on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-81, hi-hat through bars 82-109, kick and crashes through bars 110-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-138, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
World Eater -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-96 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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