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Amadeus · Arakain

EXERCISE 19 OF 33
Groove S
99 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amadeus on drums

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.

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
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-47, snare through bars 48-66, toms through bars 67-70, snare through bars 71-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15           16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |----x-------|x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-|--x-x-x---x-|
Amadeus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E, M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 46-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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