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In The Beginning · Amorphis

EXERCISE 21 OF 50
Groove O
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0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Beginning on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49, ride through bars 50-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-97.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
In The Beginning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- K, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-18 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-42 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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