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In The Aeroplane Over The Sea · Neutral Milk Hotel

EXERCISE 19 OF 19
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS1HMDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Aeroplane Over The Sea on drums

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

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43, snare through bars 44-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
HF |------x-----|
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-48 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-85 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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