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As Long As The Raven Flies · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 21 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As Long As The Raven Flies on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-32 and toms through bars 33-36, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 37-68 and 73-80 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
As Long As The Raven Flies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- G, J -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-84 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is As Long As The Raven Flies?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 As Long As The Raven Flies hard to play on drums?

52 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Long As The Raven Flies?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED