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Sweet Amber · Metallica

EXERCISE 9 OF 40
Join Part E to Part F (bars 39-41)
90 / 228 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART F
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
12 groovesNFIEK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Amber on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-68, snare through bars 69-72, hi-hat through bars 73-76 and snare through bars 77-84, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sweet Amber -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 63-73 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-95 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 157-167 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 165-214 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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