Voyage Of The Mighty Longship · Battleaxe

136 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:25 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 23 and 25-29, and 3 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
VOYAGE OF THE MIGHTY LONGSHIP · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 48 and 52.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 10 sections: 121 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-80.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFHAKCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Voyage Of The Mighty Longship?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Voyage Of The Mighty Longship hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Voyage Of The Mighty Longship?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 48 and 52.

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