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Viking Death March · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART T
PART B
CHORUS 5
10 groovesDBNTS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Viking Death March on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, toms through bars 33-36, silence through bars 37-39 and snare through bars 40-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 13 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Viking Death March -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 35, 65, 66, 67, 68, 80 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Viking Death March?

147 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 Viking Death March hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Viking Death March?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 35, 65, 66, 67, 68, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED