Poor Aileen · Superheaven

144 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-6, 9-14 and 17-31, and 6 more places -- 68.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
POOR AILEEN · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 36, 40, 56, 84 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 2 sections: 40 keep time, 11 are fills and 92 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poor Aileen?

140 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 Poor Aileen hard to play on drums?

36 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?

144 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Poor Aileen?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 36, 40, 56, 84 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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