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Aaron Spears The Legendary Appearance Caught UP · AARON SPEARS

EXERCISE 28 OF 67
Run A1 · Part A (bars 43-52)
71 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJBPABA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aaron Spears The Legendary Appearance Caught UP on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, toms through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-90, silence through bars 91-92, hi-hat through bars 93-96 and kick and crashes through bars 97-101, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-12, and 3 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x-x-x---x-----------x-----------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------------------------------------------------------|
Aaron Spears The Legendary Appearance Caught UP -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- B, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-51 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-60 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aaron Spears The Legendary Appearance Caught UP?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Aaron Spears The Legendary Appearance Caught UP hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Aaron Spears The Legendary Appearance Caught UP?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED