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Amon . · Dir En Grey

EXERCISE 28 OF 32
Fill at bar 55 (a small one)
54 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART X
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS5LXBAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amon . on drums

85 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 124 BPM, 4:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, toms through bars 35-40, ride through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-48, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16-17 and 27, and 2 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Amon . -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-53 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part X and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Amon .?

124 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Amon . hard to play on drums?

57 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 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Amon .?

7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 6, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED