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Death in Fire · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove C -- Outro
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PART C
PART C
PART C
PART C
PART D
PART C
PART C
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
7 groovesNCDKI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death in Fire on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-24, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Death in Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-9 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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