Aerials (A Bass) · System of a Down

151 bars at 203 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
203 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-55, 57-59 and 61-63, and 7 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 203 BPM
AERIALS (A BASS) · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 36, 44, 64 and 2 more.

LOOP · 203 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 203 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 203 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 203 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 9 sections: 92 keep time, 8 are fills, 24 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-151.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEKS1RP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aerials (A Bass)?

203 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 Aerials (A Bass) hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 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 Aerials (A Bass)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 36, 44, 64 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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