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Black Embrace · Amorphis

Black Embrace · Amorphis
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EXERCISE 23 OF 30
Join Part I to Part K (bars 17-19)
33 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART K
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS5CPKIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Embrace on drums

73 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-14, ride through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-37 and silence through bars 38-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-31, 33 and 36 -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27                               28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|------------------------x-------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x-------x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
T2 |--------------------------------|------------------x-------------|
FT |--------------------------------|------------------x-------------|
BD |x-------------x-x-------------x-|x-------------x-x-----x-------x-|
Black Embrace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 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 -- P, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-27 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-38 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Black Embrace?

138 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Black Embrace hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Black Embrace?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED