Amethyst · Deafheaven

206 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 7:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-12 and 15-17, and 11 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
AMETHYST · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 37, 44, 45 and 45 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 20 sections: 120 keep time, 51 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-36.

PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART D
PART AB
PART AI
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNDAIABI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amethyst?

82 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Amethyst hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 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 Amethyst?

29 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 37, 44, 45 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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