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Aesthetic · Between The Buried And Me

EXERCISE 5 OF 85
Groove B (a two-bar phrase)
43 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART V
PART X
PART AD
PART AL
PART AO
PART AI
PART AV
14 groovesQADHVE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aesthetic on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-29, snare through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-50, ride through bars 51-67 and snare through bars 68-73, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-66 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 23, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- V, Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aesthetic?

123 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 Aesthetic hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Aesthetic?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 23, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED