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Beheading Of A King · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 5 OF 24
Groove C
86 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
4 groovesDBJS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beheading Of A King on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
82/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, toms through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-113.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Beheading Of A King -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 91-113 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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