As Loke Falls · Amon Amarth

200 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 41-43 and 47, and 8 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
AS LOKE FALLS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 12 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 19 sections: 115 keep time, 18 are fills, 43 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-147.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
15 groovesHS19PAT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As Loke Falls?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is As Loke Falls hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 As Loke Falls?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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