Raise Your Horns · Amon Amarth

119 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-27 and 37-43, and 5 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
RAISE YOUR HORNS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 8 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 9 sections: 94 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-94.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCKFLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raise Your Horns?

110 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 Raise Your Horns hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Raise Your Horns?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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