Aerial View · Constant State

29 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 0:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
29
LENGTH
0:41
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 3 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
AERIAL VIEW · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 7, 8 and 9.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

29 bars across 2 sections: 23 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-29.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aerial View?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Aerial View hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

29 bars, about 0:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Aerial View?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 7, 8 and 9.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 29 BARS ANALYSED
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