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(Is This The Way To) Amarillo · Tony Christie

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (Is This The Way To) Amarillo on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
(Is This The Way To) Amarillo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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