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Alrighty Aphrodite · Peach Pit

EXERCISE 9 OF 42
Fill at bar 50 (a small one)
41 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAESAAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alrighty Aphrodite on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-32, snare through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13, and 3 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |g--grgg-g--grggr|
BD |x-x----x-xx-----|
Alrighty Aphrodite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 26, 28, 29 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-51 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alrighty Aphrodite?

82 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 Alrighty Aphrodite hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Alrighty Aphrodite?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 26, 28, 29 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED