Amazing v4 · Aerosmith

72 bars, 4:06, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 19-20 and 23-28, and 5 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
AMAZING V4 · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 22, 30, 39, 47, 51 and 3 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 51 keep time, 9 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

PART B
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBUPH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amazing v4?

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 v4 hard to play on drums?

36 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 Amazing v4?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 22, 30, 39, 47, 51 and 3 more.

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