Aerodynamic · Daft Punk

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 57-72 and 97-104 -- 90.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AERODYNAMIC · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 43 keep time and 60 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS3S5S1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aerodynamic?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Aerodynamic hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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