Pink · Aerosmith

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 28-32 and 34-36, and 6 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
PINK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 27, 33, 45, 51, 55 and 3 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 64 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pink?

88 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 Pink hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Pink?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 27, 33, 45, 51, 55 and 3 more.

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