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Aurora · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 50 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART G
PART Q
PART A
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBGAACQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aurora on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-161 and snare through bars 162-177.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 20 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x-----|
Aurora -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 37, 40, 47, 82, 85, 92 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-87 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-124 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aurora?

124 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 Aurora hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Aurora?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 37, 40, 47, 82, 85, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED