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Avenger · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 24 OF 93
Fill at bar 26 and 30 (a small one)
157 / 243 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Avenger on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-34 and ride through bars 35-36, and 44 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|--------X-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x---xx--x---x-|
Avenger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-26 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 25-49 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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