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The Bee · Amorphis

EXERCISE 5 OF 38
Fill at bar 24, 32, 80 and 3 more (a small one)
115 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bee on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57, snare through bars 58-114, toms through bars 115-129 and snare through bars 130-137, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxx-xxx-x-x-x-x-|--x-x---x-x---x-|
The Bee -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 112-138 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 128-150 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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