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Aeroplane · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 17 OF 38
Run G1 · Part G (bars 33-36)
89 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aeroplane on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-118 and toms through bars 119-120.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |--x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Aeroplane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-76 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 69-88 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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