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ametic · Life
EXERCISE 21 OF 73
3-bar fill at bar 56
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0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S10
PART B
CHORUS
PART S10
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART Z
PART AA
PART AD
19 groovesHADBZY+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 7
JOIN · 18
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ametic on drums

222 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-20, snare through bars 21-55, hi-hat through bars 56-58, snare through bars 59-99 and kick and crashes through bars 100-101, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24, 26 and 28, and 6 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x---|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-----|------x-----x-x-|
ametic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 37, 56, 57, 58, 77 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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, AD -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-22 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-55 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part S10 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 57-96 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-109 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ametic?

120 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 ametic hard to play on drums?

45 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 7:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 ametic?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 37, 56, 57, 58, 77 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED