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Aenema · Tool

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove AB -- Chorus
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0 / 89 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART AP
PART B
PART C
PART G
PART L
PART F
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART AP
PART AW
16 groovesABFLAWG+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aenema on drums

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.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-83, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    84
    1...............2...............3...............
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
T1 |------------------------x-----------------------|
T2 |x-------x-------x---------------x-------x-------|
FT |x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |---x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x--|
Aenema -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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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