Ash in the Wind · Skillet

89 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 24-26, and 5 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ASH IN THE WIND · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 7, 27, 31, 35, 37 and 11 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 15 sections: 53 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-18.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCIFMP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ash in the Wind?

110 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 Ash in the Wind hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ash in the Wind?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 7, 27, 31, 35, 37 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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