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Amtrak · Los Retros

Amtrak · Los Retros
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amtrak on drums

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

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40 and ride through bars 41-63.

The beat

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.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-------|
Amtrak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- F, C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-28 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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