Dude Looks Like A Lady · Aerosmith

128 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

126 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

128

LENGTH

4:04

DIFFICULTY

51/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, ride through bars 26-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 26-28 and 38-44, and 6 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 25, 70, 86, 95, 102 and 2 more.

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
2. Bars 5-26 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 42-62 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Through Part O and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.