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Amber · 311

EXERCISE 9 OF 21
Groove F -- Part F
53 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
PART F
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
4 groovesDCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amber on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-20 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |XgxgxgXgXgxgxgXg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x------xx--x-x|
Amber -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 40, 54, 62 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-47 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Amber?

83 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 Amber hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Amber?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 40, 54, 62 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED