Back On Northern Shores · Amon Amarth

176 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 69-75, and 8 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BACK ON NORTHERN SHORES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 17, 25, 33 and 46 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 15 sections: 83 keep time, 52 are fills, 18 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-49.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
PART J
PART AB
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGOJABS2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back On Northern Shores?

110 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 Back On Northern Shores hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Back On Northern Shores?

33 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 17, 25, 33 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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