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Varyags Of Miklagaard · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Fill at bar 10, 22 and 48 (a small one)
27 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHLBK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Varyags Of Miklagaard on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27 and ride through bars 28-36, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 19-21, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Varyags Of Miklagaard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 27, 31, 35 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-32 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-31 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-78 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Varyags Of Miklagaard?

120 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 Varyags Of Miklagaard hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Varyags Of Miklagaard?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 14, 22, 27, 31, 35 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED