Airborne · George Bellas

195 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 7 and 9-11, and 14 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
AIRBORNE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 35, 36, 37 and 13 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 35-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 14 sections: 98 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 66 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-157.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART L
PART S9
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesAS9BLE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Airborne?

220 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 Airborne hard to play on drums?

57 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 35, 36, 37 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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