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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

152 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

136

LENGTH

3:35

DIFFICULTY

49/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, ride through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-23, ride through bars 24-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-31, and 8 more changes after that.

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
T2 |----------------|------------x---|
BD |x---x-----x-x-x-|x---x-------x---|

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

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 50-98 -- 10 exercises, about 35 minutes.
6. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.