Bloodshed · Amon Amarth

160 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81, 83-85 and 89, and 4 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BLOODSHED · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 37 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 9 sections: 106 keep time, 43 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-126.

PART A
CHORUS
PART X
PART AA
PART AD
PART AL
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIADAAAAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bloodshed?

124 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 Bloodshed hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bloodshed?

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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