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Shield Wall · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 18 OF 50
Fill at bar 16, 32 and 88
61 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART K
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shield Wall on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
81/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-48 and toms through bars 49-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Shield Wall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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