Beheading Of A King · Amon Amarth

113 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 58-89 and 98-104, and 1 more place -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BEHEADING OF A KING · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 34-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 7 sections: 93 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-89.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
4 groovesDBJS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beheading Of A King?

140 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 Beheading Of A King hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Beheading Of A King?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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