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Aberdeen · Cage The Elephant

EXERCISE 11 OF 16
Groove G
70 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aberdeen on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----x---------|
Aberdeen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-9 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-60 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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