Falling in love (is hard on the knees) · Aerosmith

94 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 7 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
FALLING IN LOVE (IS HARD ON THE KNEES) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 49, 53, 57, 58, 76 and 3 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 7 sections: 73 keep time, 9 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-38.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDKCJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Falling in love (is hard on the knees)?

116 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 Falling in love (is hard on the knees) hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Falling in love (is hard on the knees)?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 49, 53, 57, 58, 76 and 3 more.

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