Aspirin Damage · Alice Cooper

95 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 51-58 and 60-75, and 1 more place -- 62.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
ASPIRIN DAMAGE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 5 sections: 85 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-95.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aspirin Damage?

134 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 Aspirin Damage hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Aspirin Damage?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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