Amaranth · Nightwish

122 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-33 and 52-57 -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
AMARANTH · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 37, 38, 47 and 13 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 47-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-36.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART N
PART T
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesHOBNT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amaranth?

128 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 Amaranth hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Amaranth?

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 37, 38, 47 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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