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Breathe In The Air · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 8 OF 19
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 17-19)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breathe In The Air on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
42/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Breathe In The Air -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-32 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED