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The Pursuit Of Vikings · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 8 OF 31
Groove B (a two-bar phrase)
83 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesENKS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Pursuit Of Vikings on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-41, toms through bars 42-46, snare through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-60, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-55 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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