Amarillo by Morning · George Strait

76 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-25 and 41-48, and 1 more place -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
AMARILLO BY MORNING · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 49, 58 and 76.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 7 sections: 66 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-25.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
5 groovesADBS6S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amarillo by Morning?

122 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 Amarillo by Morning hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Amarillo by Morning?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 49, 58 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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