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An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove N -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
81/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-24, snare through bars 25-58 and ride through bars 59-60, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25                       26
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------x-----------|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
HF |----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-|
An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-25 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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