Once Sent From The Golden Hall · Amon Amarth

191 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 32-34, and 9 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 191 BPM
ONCE SENT FROM THE GOLDEN HALL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 30 more.

LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 191 BPM
BARS 9-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 15 sections: 101 keep time, 36 are fills, 38 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-142.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART AG
OUTRO
10 groovesITBAGD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Once Sent From The Golden Hall?

191 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 Once Sent From The Golden Hall hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 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 Once Sent From The Golden Hall?

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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