Thousand Years Of Oppression · Amon Amarth

180 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 26-28, and 9 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THOUSAND YEARS OF OPPRESSION · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 24, 56, 60 and 8 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 10 sections: 136 keep time, 14 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-180.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO
9 groovesNCRGK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thousand Years Of Oppression?

125 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 Thousand Years Of Oppression hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Thousand Years Of Oppression?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 24, 56, 60 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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