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In the Shadow of the Horns · Darkthrone

EXERCISE 16 OF 66
Groove P
146 / 223 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART AB
9 groovesEABMOZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In the Shadow of the Horns on drums

223 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 8:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-45, ride through bars 46-58, hi-hat through bars 59-90 and ride through bars 91-103, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 138-144, 146-152 and 154-160, and 4 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    139
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
In the Shadow of the Horns -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 5, 16, 29, 33, 45 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-47 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In the Shadow of the Horns?

108 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 In the Shadow of the Horns hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 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, 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 In the Shadow of the Horns?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 5, 16, 29, 33, 45 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED