Amongst Stars · Amorphis

200 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 4:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-34, 68-82 and 108-122 -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
AMONGST STARS · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 35, 51, 59 and 10 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 130-131 · LANDS ON BAR 132 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 13 sections: 118 keep time, 17 are fills, 44 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART H
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKHNP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amongst Stars?

138 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Amongst Stars hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Amongst Stars?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 35, 51, 59 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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