(Is This The Way To) Amarillo · Tony Christie

101 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 19 more places -- 78.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
(IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 60, 68, 76 and 1 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars: 93 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (Is This The Way To) Amarillo?

132 BPM, in 4/4, 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 (Is This The Way To) Amarillo hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 (Is This The Way To) Amarillo?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 60, 68, 76 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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