And Soon The World Will Cease To Be · Amon Amarth

182 bars, 10:24, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
10:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 61-62 and 99-101, and 4 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
AND SOON THE WORLD WILL CEASE TO BE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 30 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 10 sections: 119 keep time, 36 are fills, 13 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-139.

PART C
PART H
PART J
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNQCAFH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is And Soon The World Will Cease To Be?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is And Soon The World Will Cease To Be hard to play on drums?

61 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 10:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 And Soon The World Will Cease To Be?

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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