ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Architecture Of Aggression on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 95 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 77
LENGTH: 3:11
DIFFICULTY: 79/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-20, toms through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-30, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 23-30 and 60-67 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                                                7
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x--------x-----------x--x--------x-----x--x-----|------x--------x--------x--------x--------------|

Architecture Of Aggression -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 5, 15, 21, 22, 32 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 3-14 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
Bars 16-53 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Bars 18-35 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 33-41 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Architecture Of Aggression?

95 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 Architecture Of Aggression hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Architecture Of Aggression?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 5, 15, 21, 22, 32 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED