In The Aeroplane Over The Sea · Neutral Milk Hotel

103 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 3:18 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25-26, and 12 more places -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 53 and 61.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 67 keep time, 3 are fills, 8 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS1HMDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Aeroplane Over The Sea?

94 BPM, in 3/4, 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 In The Aeroplane Over The Sea hard to play on drums?

35 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in In The Aeroplane Over The Sea?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 53 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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