Twilight Of The Thunder God · Amon Amarth

193 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 192 BPM
TWILIGHT OF THE THUNDER GOD · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 32 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 13 sections: 137 keep time, 38 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 158-171.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART R
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHJARX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twilight Of The Thunder God?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Twilight Of The Thunder God hard to play on drums?

85 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?

193 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 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 Twilight Of The Thunder God?

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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