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War Of The Gods · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO
13 groovesIDLGH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Of The Gods on drums

214 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38 and ride through bars 39-42, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 74, and 5 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
War Of The Gods -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 50, 58, 89, 90 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-32 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-62 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-91 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is War Of The Gods?

190 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 War Of The Gods hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 War Of The Gods?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 50, 58, 89, 90 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED