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Amarillo by Morning · George Strait

Amarillo by Morning · George Strait
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 22 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
5 groovesADBS6S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amarillo by Morning on drums

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

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-40, hi-hat through bars 41-73 and silence through bars 74-76.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Amarillo by Morning -- 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 49, 58 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-44 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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