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Jotun · In Flames

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGAPUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jotun on drums

136 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-37, snare through bars 38-46, hi-hat through bars 47-93, snare through bars 94-109 and ride through bars 110-117, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 24-25 and 28, and 11 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Jotun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 21 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-14 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-17 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-78 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jotun?

155 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 Jotun hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Jotun?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 21 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED