Aeroplane · Red Hot Chili Peppers

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 16, and 6 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
AEROPLANE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 44, 64, 68 and 5 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 14 sections: 91 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-116.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesBDFKA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aeroplane?

96 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 Aeroplane hard to play on drums?

62 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Aeroplane?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 44, 64, 68 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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