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Amor · Emmanuel Cortes

Amor · Emmanuel Cortes
EXERCISE 13 OF 29
Groove J
60 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART F
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
4 groovesGIFS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amor on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-71 and toms through bars 72-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-11, 34-35 and 38-39, and 3 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x-------x-|
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
BD |----x-x-----x-x-|
Amor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 22, 28 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-15 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Amor?

90 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Amor hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 22, 28 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED