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Aperture · Harry Styles

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Verse
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0 / 12 PASSED · 94 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2, VERSE 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
5 groovesCBS1S3DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aperture on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-92 and kick and crashes through bars 93-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-63, 65-76 and 81-92, and 2 more places -- 69.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x--x--x-|
Aperture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Aperture?

128 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 Aperture hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED