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Amnésia · Fragmática

Amnésia · Fragmática
EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove D
72 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART J
PART E
PART R
7 groovesBJERC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amnésia on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-99, kick and crashes through bars 100-103, hi-hat through bars 104-116, toms through bars 117-119 and ride through bars 120-134, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 37 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |x-----x-----x---x---x---x---o---|
SD |------x-----x-----------x-------|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
Amnésia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 103, 107, 117, 118, 119 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Amnésia?

130 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Amnésia hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Amnésia?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 103, 107, 117, 118, 119 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED