Amazing · Aerosmith

96 bars, 5:29, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-30 and 50-52, and 6 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
AMAZING · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 31, 32, 41 and 11 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-94.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDSS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amazing?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Amazing hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Amazing?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 31, 32, 41 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Aerosmith drum parts

EVERY AEROSMITH CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →