The Way Of Vikings · Amon Amarth

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 13 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE WAY OF VIKINGS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 23, 24, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 12 sections: 147 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-54.

PART A
PART D
PART K
PART P
CHORUS
PART K
PART P
9 groovesVDKPA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way Of Vikings?

140 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 Way Of Vikings hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Way Of Vikings?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 23, 24, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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