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Back On Northern Shores · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 1 OF 103
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 103 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AB
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGOJABS2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 33
LAND · 33
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back On Northern Shores on drums

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.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
90/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, toms through bars 50-51, ride through bars 52-68 and snare through bars 69-76, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Back On Northern Shores -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-54 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-34 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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