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59 · Amatory

59 · Amatory
EXERCISE 10 OF 30
Groove H
67 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJGCNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 59 on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-55, ride through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-25, 34-41 and 67-90 -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|--------------x-|
HH |--o-o---o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x----g--x---|----x----g--xx--|
BD |x--xxxx---xx-x-x|x--x-xx-x-xx--x-|
59 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 33, 57 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-67 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 59?

105 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 59 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 59?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 33, 57 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED