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

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove D -- Outro 2
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-38, snare through bars 39-49, hi-hat through bars 50-92 and snare through bars 93-94.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------------x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Falling in love (is hard on the knees) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-40 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-50 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-70 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED