Amnesiak · The Blind Cow

18 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
18
LENGTH
0:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10 and 13-16 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AMNESIAK · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 7, 11, 12, 17 and 18.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 17-18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

18 bars across 2 sections: 10 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

OUTRO
VERSE
2 groovesDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amnesiak?

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 Amnesiak hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

18 bars, about 0:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Amnesiak?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 7, 11, 12, 17 and 18.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 18 BARS ANALYSED
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