Airbag · Radiohead

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 17 and 19-20, and 15 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
AIRBAG · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 49.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 78 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-73.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGFHS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Airbag?

86 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 Airbag hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Airbag?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 49.

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