Vengeance Is My Name · Amon Amarth

135 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 9 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 121 BPM
VENGEANCE IS MY NAME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 41 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 13 sections: 68 keep time, 47 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-98.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART L
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLHAOU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vengeance Is My Name?

121 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 Vengeance Is My Name hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Vengeance Is My Name?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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