Heidrun · Amon Amarth

152 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 39-41, and 15 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HEIDRUN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 22 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 10 sections: 111 keep time, 29 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-85.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFHAOV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heidrun?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Heidrun hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Heidrun?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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