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The Sound Of Eight Hooves · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 10 OF 47
Fill at bar 55, 63 and 67 (a small one)
79 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sound Of Eight Hooves on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-57 and snare through bars 58-59, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Sound Of Eight Hooves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-56 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 2-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-52 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-99 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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