The Immortal · Arch Enemy

152 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-47, 68-83 and 132-139 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE IMMORTAL · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 48 and 5 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 48-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 14 sections: 117 keep time, 11 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-47.

PART A
PART G
PART H
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART K
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIHGJK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Immortal?

95 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 Immortal hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 The Immortal?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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