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.

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

TEMPO

76 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

67

LENGTH

3:27

DIFFICULTY

40/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-65 and kick and crashes through bars 66-67.

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.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x----x--x-------|x----x--x-------|
HH |--x-x-----x-x-x-|--x-x-----x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
T1 |----------------|----------xx----|
T2 |----------------|------------x---|
FT |----------------|-------------xx-|
BD |x----x--x--x----|x----x--x--x----|

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

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Bars 13-27 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Bars 22-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.