The Fate Of Norns · Amon Amarth

154 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-57 and 59-61, and 8 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE FATE OF NORNS · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 22, 30 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 10 sections: 123 keep time, 20 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-154.

PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHCNFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fate Of Norns?

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 The Fate Of Norns hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Fate Of Norns?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 22, 30 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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