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Other Side · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 12 OF 45
Join Part F to Part E (bars 27-29)
100 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART E
CHORUS
PART F
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFKAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Other Side on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-61, snare through bars 62-63 and toms through bars 64-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Other Side -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-47 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 49-66 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-100 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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