Vs. The World · Amon Amarth

155 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37 and 39, and 7 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
VS. THE WORLD · BAR 123
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 34, 38, 58 and 15 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 11 sections: 120 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-57.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGVACS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vs. The World?

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 Vs. The World hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Vs. The World?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 34, 38, 58 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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