The Grind · Aerosmith

53 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 3:29 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 13-15 and 19-20, and 4 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE GRIND · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 11, 17 and 23.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 3 sections: 27 keep time, 6 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-35.

PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFS3DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Grind?

90 BPM, in 6/4, 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 The Grind hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 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 The Grind?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 11, 17 and 23.

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