“Ashes in the Air” and “Scars of the Flame” – Heartbreaking Slow Rock Performance · michael bennett

163 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 8:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
8:29
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 29-33, and 2 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
“ASHES IN THE AIR” AND “SCARS OF THE FLAME” – HEARTBREAKING SLOW ROCK PERFORMANCE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 28, 35, 40, 48, 55 and 10 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 15 sections: 69 keep time, 16 are fills, 10 are stops and 59 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
PART S10
PART P
PART R
BREAK
12 groovesBS10S15PM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is “Ashes in the Air” and “Scars of the Flame” – Heartbreaking Slow Rock Performance?

92 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 “Ashes in the Air” and “Scars of the Flame” – Heartbreaking Slow Rock Performance hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 8:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 “Ashes in the Air” and “Scars of the Flame” – Heartbreaking Slow Rock Performance?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 28, 35, 40, 48, 55 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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