Amber · Stick To Your Guns

141 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-28 and 57-63 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
AMBER · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 32, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 26 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 64 keep time, 32 are fills, 22 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-27.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART B
PART Q
PART V
PART Z
PART V
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesDBVZAL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amber?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Amber hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Amber?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 32, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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