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.

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 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-------|

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

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.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
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.