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Amethyst · Deafheaven

EXERCISE 9 OF 109
Fill at bar 13 (a small one)
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0 / 109 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amethyst on drums

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.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, snare through bars 38-43, toms through bars 44-45 and snare through bars 46-51, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----x-----|
BD |x-------x-x-------------|
Amethyst -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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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