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Vengeance Is My Name · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 42 OF 76
Groove U -- Part U
90 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART U
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vengeance Is My Name on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-56, ride through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx---x--xx--|
Vengeance Is My Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-61 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-32 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-48 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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