Aqualung · Jethro Tull

234 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 7:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
7:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-86, 91-94 and 99-103, and 8 more places -- 33.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
AQUALUNG · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 66, 68, 126, 130, 132, 134 and 8 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 156 · LANDS ON BAR 157

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 14 sections: 162 keep time, 14 are fills, 9 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-32.

PART D
BREAK
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
8 groovesNDHAS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aqualung?

122 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 Aqualung hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 7:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Aqualung?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 66, 68, 126, 130, 132, 134 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
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