Amadeus · Arakain

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-20, 22-27 and 81-86, and 1 more place -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
AMADEUS · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 7, 21 and 87.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-110.

PART A
PART E
PART O
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMOEAVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amadeus?

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 Amadeus 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Amadeus?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 7, 21 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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