Death in Fire · Amon Amarth

159 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-16 and 21-24, and 5 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DEATH IN FIRE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 19, 20, 27 and 23 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 24 sections: 104 keep time, 29 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-43.

PART D
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
7 groovesNCDKI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death in Fire?

130 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 Death in Fire hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Death in Fire?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 19, 20, 27 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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