The Call Of The Mountains · Eluveitie

98 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 32-39 and 44-46, and 7 more places -- 57.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 47, 63, 64, 68, 69 and 71.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 13 sections: 28 keep time, 6 are fills, 33 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-30.

CHORUS
PART S4
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBES4S12H+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Call Of The Mountains?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Call Of The Mountains hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 The Call Of The Mountains?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 47, 63, 64, 68, 69 and 71.

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