Airborne · Acatstrollstare

185 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 93-100, 102-109 and 141-148, and 1 more place -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
AIRBORNE · BARS 93-94
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 67, 70, 73, 84, 86, 88 and 15 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 20 sections: 105 keep time, 24 are fills, 10 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-60.

BREAK
PART G
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
15 groovesSGHLS2+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Airborne?

130 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 Airborne hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Airborne?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 67, 70, 73, 84, 86, 88 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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