In The Air Tonight · State of Mine

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 7 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
IN THE AIR TONIGHT · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 52 and 9 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-59.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS2ILS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Air Tonight?

96 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?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In The Air Tonight?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 52 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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