Livin' On the Edge · Aerosmith

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 37-45 and 47-53, and 3 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
LIVIN' ON THE EDGE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 5 sections: 88 keep time, 1 is a fill, 18 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-58.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCLAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Livin' On the Edge?

85 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 Livin' On the Edge hard to play on drums?

42 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Livin' On the Edge?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

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