Amoeba · Adolescents

144 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 6-8 and 11, and 35 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 192 BPM
AMOEBA · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 39 and 16 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 14 sections: 101 keep time, 22 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART K
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
4 groovesCDKHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amoeba?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Amoeba hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 39 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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