Amateur (Rock Me Amadeus) · Molotov

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-29, 43-49 and 67-73 -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
AMATEUR (ROCK ME AMADEUS) · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 30 and 11 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-29.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJDFQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amateur (Rock Me Amadeus)?

85 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 Amateur (Rock Me Amadeus) hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Amateur (Rock Me Amadeus)?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 30 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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