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Amon Amarth · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 14 OF 89
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 32-34)
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0 / 89 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AO
PART AP
PART AR
PART W
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEWAPARAO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amon Amarth on drums

266 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
8:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, toms through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-87 and toms through bars 88-92, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 26 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 16, 37, 38, 39, 40, 48 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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, AP -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-49 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-105 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Amon Amarth?

130 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 Amon Amarth hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 8:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Amon Amarth?

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 16, 37, 38, 39, 40, 48 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED