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Raise Your Horns · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 11 OF 36
Fill at bar 32 and 64 (a small one)
99 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Raise Your Horns on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-60, ride through bars 61-68 and snare through bars 69-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Raise Your Horns -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-37 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-94 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 91-103 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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