Breathe In The Air · Pink Floyd

89 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 19, and 12 more places -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BREATHE IN THE AIR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 6 sections: 75 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-65.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breathe In The Air?

128 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?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Breathe In The Air?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.

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