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Viking · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 24 OF 92
Join Part G to Part M (bars 50-52)
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CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART M
PART AX
OUTRO
21 groovesAGBEADM+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 10
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Viking on drums

218 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-25, silence through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-67 and toms through bars 68-69, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-50, 53 and 57, and 15 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    90
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Viking -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 46, 48, 60 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- K, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-37 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part AD and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-52 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-59 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Viking?

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

Is Viking hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Viking?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 46, 48, 60 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED