Air Catcher · Twenty One Pilots

81 bars, 4:16, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33, 50-56 and 58-65 -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
AIR CATCHER · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-65.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGEIS1S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Air Catcher?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Air Catcher hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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