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Drowned Maid · Amorphis

EXERCISE 35 OF 63
Groove U
80 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drowned Maid on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-37 and kick and crashes through bars 38-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------x-----|
Drowned Maid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M, O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-30 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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