Doom Over Dead Man · Amon Amarth

188 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-87, 89-95 and 97-103, and 1 more place -- 17.8% 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
DOOM OVER DEAD MAN · BARS 85-86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 23 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 12 sections: 146 keep time, 29 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-188.

PART A
PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesSXAAED+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Doom Over Dead Man?

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 Doom Over Dead Man hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Doom Over Dead Man?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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