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Wrong Direction · Amorphis

EXERCISE 4 OF 48
Groove H -- Part H
69 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART E
PART H
VERSE
PART N
PART H
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
8 groovesISAHE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wrong Direction on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-24, snare through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-55 and toms through bars 56-58, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 75-81, and 4 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx-x--x-xx-x--|
Wrong Direction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 48, 56, 58 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I, S -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-33 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-67 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-78 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wrong Direction?

130 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 Wrong Direction hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Wrong Direction?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 48, 56, 58 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED