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Aura · IV OF SPADES

EXERCISE 17 OF 27
Groove L -- Part L
136 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO
9 groovesCFJLP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aura on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-102, snare through bars 103-108, ride through bars 109-114, toms through bars 115-118 and silence through bars 119-122, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 19 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Aura -- 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 102.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-63 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 66-88 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 4 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 113-119 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Aura?

128 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 Aura hard to play on drums?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Aura?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED