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Amateur (Rock Me Amadeus) · Molotov

EXERCISE 3 OF 36
Groove M
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amateur (Rock Me Amadeus) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and ride through bars 51-58, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|x-------xxxx----|
Amateur (Rock Me Amadeus) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-51 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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