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Arson · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 23 OF 57
Join Part J to Chorus 2 (bars 64-66)
138 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arson on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-57, snare through bars 58-63 and toms through bars 64-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----------|
Arson -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- H, T -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-99 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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