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Heidrun · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 22 OF 52
Groove O -- Part O
110 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heidrun on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-38, snare through bars 39-45, toms through bars 46-51 and snare through bars 52-60, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--|
Heidrun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-25 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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