Grasping For Air · Unzipped in Reverse

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 15-18 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
GRASPING FOR AIR · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 14, 19, 20, 37, 38 and 10 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 37-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-36.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIHQX+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grasping For Air?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Grasping For Air hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Grasping For Air?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 14, 19, 20, 37, 38 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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