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Victorious March · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 19 OF 78
Join Part J to Chorus (bars 53-55)
178 / 255 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS
PART B
PART D
PART F
PART J
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Victorious March on drums

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.

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

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

kick and crashes through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57, snare through bars 58-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-89, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    58
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Victorious March -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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