Where Death Seems To Dwell · Amon Amarth

174 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-112 and 165-171 -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WHERE DEATH SEEMS TO DWELL · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 64, 113, 114 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 113-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 7 sections: 143 keep time, 15 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-112.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJAHPSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Death Seems To Dwell?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Where Death Seems To Dwell hard to play on drums?

56 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 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 Where Death Seems To Dwell?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 64, 113, 114 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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