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Airborne · George Bellas

Airborne · George Bellas
EXERCISE 14 OF 33
Join Chorus 2 to Part B (bars 37-39)
107 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Airborne on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100

ride through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-53 and snare through bars 54-59, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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