Don't Get Mad, Get Even · Aerosmith

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22-23, and 10 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DON'T GET MAD, GET EVEN · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 35, 63, 73 and 81.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 7 sections: 78 keep time, 5 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Get Mad, Get Even?

80 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 Don't Get Mad, Get Even hard to play on drums?

27 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Don't Get Mad, Get Even?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 35, 63, 73 and 81.

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