In The Air Tonight · Filthy AI

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 51-66 and 91-98 -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 97 BPM
IN THE AIR TONIGHT · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 48, 81, 82, 90 and 100.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-66.

CHORUS
PART S5
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFJS5S10A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Air Tonight?

97 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 In The Air Tonight 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 In The Air Tonight?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 48, 81, 82, 90 and 100.

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