The Bee · Amorphis

185 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42-48 and 58-64, and 3 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
THE BEE · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 32, 41, 49, 57, 65 and 8 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 13 sections: 133 keep time, 14 are fills, 10 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-104.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART K
CHORUS 3
7 groovesDGKAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Bee?

138 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 The Bee hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Bee?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 32, 41, 49, 57, 65 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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