Victory Or Valhalla (Last Man Standing) · Ancient Rites

156 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 3 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
VICTORY OR VALHALLA (LAST MAN STANDING) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 38 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 14 sections: 89 keep time, 44 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-43.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART M
PART Q
PART Y
PART AF
PART AI
PART M
PART AM
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCYQMG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Victory Or Valhalla (Last Man Standing)?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Victory Or Valhalla (Last Man Standing) hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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 Victory Or Valhalla (Last Man Standing)?

23 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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