Other Side · Aerosmith

128 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-23, 25-27 and 29, and 10 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
OTHER SIDE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 17, 31, 41, 49, 61 and 19 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time, 25 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-80.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFKAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Other Side?

127 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 Other Side hard to play on drums?

43 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Other Side?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 17, 31, 41, 49, 61 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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