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The Immortal · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 17 OF 48
Run E1 · Part E (bars 11-15)
108 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART A
PART E
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Immortal on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-47, ride through bars 48-51, hi-hat through bars 52-107, ride through bars 108-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-123, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Immortal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 48 and 5 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 -- I, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-35 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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