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Amazing · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove G -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDSS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amazing on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, ride through bars 50-59 and snare through bars 60-63, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Amazing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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