Runes To My Memory · Amon Amarth

139 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 73-79, and 1 more place -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
RUNES TO MY MEMORY · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 13, 14, 16 and 23 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 86 keep time, 29 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFOTLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Runes To My Memory?

126 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 Runes To My Memory hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Runes To My Memory?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 13, 14, 16 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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