A paper characterizing periodic and aperiodic variability of APOGEE targets with ASAS-SN data was recently accepted to MNRAS. In this effort led by Michał Pawlak, we characterized almost 2000 periodic variable stars, all with existing multi-epoch high-resolution spectroscopy from APOGEE. We found that eclipsing binaries tend to favor lower metallicities, as was recently found on purely spectroscopic samples. We characterized the variability with damped random walk stochastic process. This is a starting point for future investigations combining high-res spectroscopy from surveys with time-domain photometric information. The paper is available on astro-ph.