Gjallarhorn · Amon Amarth

207 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 6 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
GJALLARHORN · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 22, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 and 43 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 30-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 51-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 16 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 20 sections: 99 keep time, 49 are fills, 5 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-50.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AN
BREAK
PART T
13 groovesKTYS1S16+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gjallarhorn?

160 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 Gjallarhorn hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 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 Gjallarhorn?

15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 22, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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