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Amen · Halestorm

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove H -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHDNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amen on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-21, toms through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37 and toms through bars 38-40, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 31-33, and 4 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|--------------x-|
FT |----------------|-------------x-x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x---x---x-----|
Amen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 14, 22, 23, 24, 28, 38 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-26 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-41 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Amen?

80 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 Amen hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 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 Amen?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 14, 22, 23, 24, 28, 38 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED