Valhalla · Blind Guardian

185 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 41-47, and 12 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
VALHALLA · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 37, 38, 39 and 15 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 14 sections: 147 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-183.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDLAFP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Valhalla?

172 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 Valhalla hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Valhalla?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 37, 38, 39 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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