Get A Grip · Aerosmith

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 17-29 and 31-36, and 5 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
GET A GRIP · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 30, 45, 46, 62, 80 and 7 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-29.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECBGM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get A Grip?

108 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 Get A Grip hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Get A Grip?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 30, 45, 46, 62, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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