Sweet Amber · Metallica

228 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 57-63, and 2 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SWEET AMBER · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 171, 172, 173, 174 and 227.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 171-174 · LANDS ON BAR 175 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 227 · LANDS ON BAR 228
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

228 bars across 22 sections: 118 keep time, 6 are fills, 52 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
12 groovesNFIEK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Amber?

100 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 Sweet Amber hard to play on drums?

48 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 8:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Sweet Amber?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 171, 172, 173, 174 and 227.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
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