Aero Zeppelin · Nirvana

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 15-16 and 18-21, and 1 more place -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
AERO ZEPPELIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 33, 34, 35, 44, 54 and 13 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 15 sections: 88 keep time and 19 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-21.

PART B
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
9 groovesLBOIE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aero Zeppelin?

102 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Aero Zeppelin hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Aero Zeppelin?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 33, 34, 35, 44, 54 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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