The Pursuit Of Vikings · Amon Amarth

144 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 17 and 19-23, and 9 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE PURSUIT OF VIKINGS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time, 24 are fills, 22 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-38.

CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesENKS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Pursuit Of Vikings?

130 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 Pursuit Of Vikings hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Pursuit Of Vikings?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 45, 46, 48, 50, 52 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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