Friends Of The Suncross · Amon Amarth

186 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 154-168 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
FRIENDS OF THE SUNCROSS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 12 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 19 sections: 115 keep time, 18 are fills, 21 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-128.

CHORUS
PART G
PART P
PART X
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesDGXMAD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Friends Of The Suncross?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Friends Of The Suncross hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Friends Of The Suncross?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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