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Guardians Of Asgaard · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove C -- Part C
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesAGCLR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guardians Of Asgaard on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, snare through bars 37-39, toms through bars 40-44 and snare through bars 45-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 15 and 17-20, and 15 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Guardians Of Asgaard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 16, 24, 40 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-69 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-90 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Guardians Of Asgaard?

135 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 Guardians Of Asgaard hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Guardians Of Asgaard?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 16, 24, 40 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED