Last Child · Aerosmith

71 bars, 4:03, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-25 and 27-43, and 2 more places -- 85.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
LAST CHILD · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 46.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 2 sections: 69 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-45.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Child?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Last Child 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Last Child?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 46.

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