← SONGS

Aeris · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
27 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aeris on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-32, toms through bars 33-41, snare through bars 42-54, toms through bars 55-58 and snare through bars 59-70, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---|
Aeris -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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