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Air Hostess · Busted

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Air Hostess on drums

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

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-134, silence through bars 135-136, hi-hat through bars 137-155, snare through bars 156-162 and hi-hat through bars 163-169.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Air Hostess -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 50-109 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 74-119 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED