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Amber · Stick To Your Guns

Amber · Stick To Your Guns
EXERCISE 8 OF 69
Groove Z -- Part Z
38 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amber on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-47, toms through bars 48-56, hi-hat through bars 57-64 and snare through bars 65-73, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-xxxx------xxx-|----x-x-xxxxxxxx|
Amber -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-90 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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