Shield Wall · Amon Amarth

112 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 81-83, and 1 more place -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SHIELD WALL · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 11 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 15 sections: 67 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-47.

PART E
PART H
PART K
PART L
PART N
CHORUS
PART S10
PART V
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQKLNS10+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shield Wall?

130 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 Shield Wall hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Shield Wall?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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