Fresh Air · Quicksilver Messenger Service

152 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-35, 38-39 and 46-49, and 3 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
FRESH AIR · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 41, 69, 116, 117, 121 and 3 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 116-117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 17 sections: 115 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-39.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
8 groovesIDBQH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fresh Air?

112 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 Fresh Air hard to play on drums?

43 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?

152 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Fresh Air?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 41, 69, 116, 117, 121 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →