War Of The Gods (Correct Version) · Amon Amarth

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.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

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.

LOOP · 190 BPM
WAR OF THE GODS (CORRECT VERSION) · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 26 sections: 170 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-166.

PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
PART P
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
13 groovesIDLGH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Of The Gods (Correct Version)?

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 (Correct Version) 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 (Correct Version)?

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
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