Aberdeen · Cage The Elephant

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 21-23 and 25, and 4 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
ABERDEEN · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 27, 28, 40 and 8 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time and 14 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-19.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDMQAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aberdeen?

102 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 Aberdeen hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Aberdeen?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 27, 28, 40 and 8 more.

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