The Sound Of Eight Hooves · Amon Amarth

138 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8, and 18 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE SOUND OF EIGHT HOOVES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 18, 19, 27, 30, 35 and 21 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 10 sections: 102 keep time, 27 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-114.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART O
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBKHOQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sound Of Eight Hooves?

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 Sound Of Eight Hooves hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Sound Of Eight Hooves?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 18, 19, 27, 30, 35 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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