Amen And Attack · Powerwolf

188 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-28 and 31-33, and 19 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
AMEN AND ATTACK · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 13, 30, 34, 42, 54 and 14 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 14 sections: 119 keep time, 20 are fills, 33 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-73.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
8 groovesHAGSV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amen And Attack?

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

Is Amen And Attack hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Amen And Attack?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 13, 30, 34, 42, 54 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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