In the Airwaves · Avatar

207 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 58 and 60, and 13 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
IN THE AIRWAVES · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 20 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 18 sections: 121 keep time, 26 are fills, 33 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 185-202.

PART A
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART L
OUTRO
11 groovesELGJAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In the Airwaves?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is In the Airwaves hard to play on drums?

63 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Airwaves?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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