Air · Talking Heads

108 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-17 and 19-24, and 9 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
AIR · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 52, 76, 84, 88, 92 and 4 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 2 sections: 97 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-51.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Air?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Air hard to play on drums?

50 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?

108 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Air?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 52, 76, 84, 88, 92 and 4 more.

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