Amtrak · Los Retros

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24 and 41-62 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
AMTRAK · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 16, 36 and 40.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 5 sections: 51 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-62.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amtrak?

88 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 Amtrak hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Amtrak?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 16, 36 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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