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Aero Zeppelin · Nirvana

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLBOIE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aero Zeppelin on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
85/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-44, hi-hat through bars 45-63, ride through bars 64-67, hi-hat through bars 68-116 and ride through bars 117-124.

The beat

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.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-x-----------------------------|
RD |--------x-x-x-x---x-x---x---x---|
SD |------------------------x-------|
BD |x-x-----------------------------|
Aero Zeppelin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-45 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-91 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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