Aspirations · Gentle Giant

59 bars, 3:38, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-12 and 14-17, and 8 more places -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
ASPIRATIONS · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 45, 46 and 3 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 59
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 6 sections: 35 keep time, 9 are fills, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aspirations?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Aspirations hard to play on drums?

47 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Aspirations?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 45, 46 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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