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Livin' On the Edge · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCLAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Livin' On the Edge on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
42/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-113.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Livin' On the Edge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-73 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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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