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Amor Amarillo · Gustavo Cerati

EXERCISE 23 OF 40
Fill at bar 71
77 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEICRU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amor Amarillo on drums

95 bars, 5:26, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-15, snare through bars 16-22, hi-hat through bars 23-32, snare through bars 33-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-37, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16-18, and 21 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Amor Amarillo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 28, 41, 67, 71, 77 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E, H -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-29 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-68 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part R and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Amor Amarillo?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Amor Amarillo hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, 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 Amor Amarillo?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 28, 41, 67, 71, 77 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED