Valhalla Calling - (Metal Version) · Miracle Of Sounds

136 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
VALHALLA CALLING - (METAL VERSION) · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 21, 37, 39 and 28 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 7 sections: 42 keep time, 34 are fills and 53 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-73.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Valhalla Calling - (Metal Version)?

152 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 Valhalla Calling - (Metal Version) hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Valhalla Calling - (Metal Version)?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 21, 37, 39 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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