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Where Death Seems To Dwell · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 5 OF 40
Groove P -- Part P
87 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Death Seems To Dwell on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, ride through bars 26-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-112, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Where Death Seems To Dwell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 133-168 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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