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Airborne · Acatstrollstare

Airborne · Acatstrollstare
EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove G -- Part G
33 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Airborne on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-32, hi-hat through bars 33-61, silence through bars 62-64, ride through bars 65-76 and snare through bars 77-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    93               94
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x---------|--x-----------x-|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|------x-----x---|
Airborne -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- S -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-72 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-116 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 137-171 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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