In The Beginning · Amorphis

97 bars, 6:25, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
IN THE BEGINNING · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 17, 21, 29 and 15 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-52.

PART A
PART E
PART K
PART N
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesQKWAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Beginning?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is In The Beginning hard to play on drums?

56 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 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 In The Beginning?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 17, 21, 29 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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