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Pink · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 13 OF 29
Fill at bar 33 and 51 (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pink on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-27, ride through bars 28-36, hi-hat through bars 37-45 and ride through bars 46-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-31 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-62 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 59-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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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