Air Hostess · Busted

169 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopPunk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 29-41 and 43-49, and 10 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 186 BPM
AIR HOSTESS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 76 and 108.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 10 sections: 139 keep time, 3 are fills, 15 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-166.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART L
OUTRO
6 groovesBCLFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Air Hostess?

186 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Air Hostess hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Air Hostess?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 76 and 108.

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