Aeris · Veil Of Maya

122 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 42-44 and 46-48, and 6 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
AERIS · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 17 and 44 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 50 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-32.

PART C
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS
PART Y
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHAMCQY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aeris?

160 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 Aeris hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Aeris?

15 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 17 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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