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Get A Grip · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 30 OF 45
Groove L -- Part L
84 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECBGM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Get A Grip on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-62, toms through bars 63-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-104.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Get A Grip -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-16 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-44 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-59 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-66 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 69-79 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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