Deuces Are Wild · Aerosmith

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-22, 39-41 and 43-45, and 2 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
DEUCES ARE WILD · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 25, 38, 42, 47, 57 and 1 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time, 7 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-14.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deuces Are Wild?

76 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 Deuces Are Wild hard to play on drums?

40 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Deuces Are Wild?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 25, 38, 42, 47, 57 and 1 more.

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