Avenger · Amon Amarth

243 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 7:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-34, 37-38 and 41-42, and 19 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
AVENGER · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 53 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 15 sections: 143 keep time, 59 are fills, 18 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-164.

CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART AN
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMANRAQAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Avenger?

135 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 Avenger hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 7:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 16 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Avenger?

25 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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