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Am I Evil? · Diamond Head

EXERCISE 34 OF 47
Groove V
248 / 281 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
BREAK
PART H
CHORUS
8 groovesRHEAS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Am I Evil? on drums

281 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 10:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
10:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-31, silence through bars 32-52, ride through bars 53-124, snare through bars 125-126 and ride through bars 127-134, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 138, 140 and 142, and 47 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    138
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Am I Evil? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 64, 100, 126, 130, 132, 134 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-52 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-73 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Am I Evil??

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Am I Evil? hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

281 bars, about 10:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Am I Evil??

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 64, 100, 126, 130, 132, 134 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 281 BARS ANALYSED