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Aspirin Damage · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aspirin Damage on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-95.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Aspirin Damage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-38 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED