Breathe (In The Air) · Pink Floyd

47 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:34 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 10 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BREATHE (IN THE AIR) · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 19, 20 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars across 2 sections: 29 keep time, 13 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-31.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathe (In The Air)?

120 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 Breathe (In The Air) hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

47 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Breathe (In The Air)?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 19, 20 and 7 more.

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