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Put Your Back Into The Oar · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 16 OF 59
Fill at bar 24 and 64 (a small one)
91 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART P
PART T
PART V
PART X
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAJDXN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Put Your Back Into The Oar on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-38, toms through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 17-23, and 9 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Put Your Back Into The Oar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-77 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-85 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Put Your Back Into The Oar?

141 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 Put Your Back Into The Oar hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Put Your Back Into The Oar?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 18 more.

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