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Amen And Attack · Powerwolf

EXERCISE 2 OF 54
Groove L
79 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amen And Attack on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-13, toms through bars 14-22, hi-hat through bars 23-60, snare through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-68, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Amen And Attack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-139 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-63 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-129 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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