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AMAZING! · ELEVATION RHYTHM & Josiah Queen

AMAZING! · ELEVATION RHYTHM & Josiah Queen
EXERCISE 24 OF 56
Groove L
78 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
10 groovesBAGVDS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play AMAZING! on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-19, toms through bars 20-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44 and toms through bars 45-60, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21 and 23-27, and 6 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
AMAZING! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 20, 28, 33, 35, 36, 52 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B, AG -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-69 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-132 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is AMAZING!?

145 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 AMAZING! hard to play on drums?

33 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 AMAZING!?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 20, 28, 33, 35, 36, 52 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED