Aenema · Tool

199 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 6:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:39
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-105, 124-131 and 133, and 3 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
AENEMA · BAR 84
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 32, 52, 54, 67, 106, 107 and 23 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 17 sections: 143 keep time, 29 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-146.

PART B
PART C
PART G
PART L
PART F
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART AW
16 groovesABFLAWG+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aenema?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Aenema hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 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 Aenema?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 32, 52, 54, 67, 106, 107 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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