Arson · Amon Amarth

212 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-40, 42-56 and 66-96 -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
ARSON · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 9, 19, 21, 25, 41 and 14 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 10 sections: 144 keep time, 20 are fills, 35 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-162.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART T
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHBNTV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arson?

134 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 Arson hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Arson?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 9, 19, 21, 25, 41 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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