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The Amen Corner · Opeth

EXERCISE 22 OF 91
Join Part E to Part K (bars 27-29)
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0 / 91 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART K
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART Y
PART S13
PART AJ
PART AR
BREAK 4
17 groovesS18UARYE+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Amen Corner on drums

206 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 10:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
10:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33, ride through bars 34-37 and snare through bars 38-41, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131-137, 139-141 and 143-146 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    131
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------xx----------xx----|
BD |x--x-x----x-x--x-x----x-|
The Amen Corner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- AR, U -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-13 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 3 and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-29 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-38 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 29-47 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Amen Corner?

105 BPM, in 6/4, 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 The Amen Corner hard to play on drums?

60 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 10:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Amen Corner?

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED