Aberdeen · Cage The Elephant

79 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-21, 23-41 and 43-48, and 7 more places -- 67.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ABERDEEN · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 8, 52, 56 and 60.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 5 sections: 68 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-47.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aberdeen?

110 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?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Aberdeen?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 8, 52, 56 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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