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In The Air Tonight · State of Mine

In The Air Tonight · State of Mine
EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 34 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS2ILS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Air Tonight on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44, toms through bars 45-60 and snare through bars 61-93.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx-----|
In The Air Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase), I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-77 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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