← SONGS

Amaranth · Nightwish

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amaranth on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-38, ride through bars 39-46 and toms through bars 47-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Amaranth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- H, O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-111 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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