Lay It Down · Aerosmith

125 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-45, 47-69 and 71-87, and 2 more places -- 95.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LAY IT DOWN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 46, 70, 88 and 104.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 3 sections: 94 keep time, 4 are fills, 25 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-124.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lay It Down?

150 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 Lay It Down hard to play on drums?

40 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Lay It Down?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 46, 70, 88 and 104.

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