An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm · Amon Amarth

145 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 81-87, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
AN ANCIENT SIGN OF COMING STORM · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 24, 32, 40 and 13 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 14 sections: 99 keep time, 19 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-145.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S9
PART AH
PART AI
OUTRO
12 groovesNUIRA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 24, 32, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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