Drowned Maid · Amorphis

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 42-44 and 46-48, and 6 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
DROWNED MAID · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 22 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 28 are fills and 32 are stops.

PART B
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMOBAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drowned Maid?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Drowned Maid hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Drowned Maid?

21 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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