Victorious March · Amon Amarth

255 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
7:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-61, 66-68 and 70-76, and 13 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
VICTORIOUS MARCH · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 17, 41, 49, 63, 64, 65 and 21 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 63-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 14 sections: 186 keep time, 27 are fills, 27 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-84.

PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART X
PART AD
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLDFBAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Victorious March?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Victorious March hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 7:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 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 Victorious March?

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 17, 41, 49, 63, 64, 65 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED
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