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Amoeba · Adolescents

Amoeba · Adolescents
EXERCISE 17 OF 47
Groove K -- Part K
120 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K, CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amoeba on drums

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

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-38, toms through bars 39-40 and ride through bars 41-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--g|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Amoeba -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-75 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 27-49 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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