← SONGS

In the Airwaves · Avatar

EXERCISE 12 OF 66
Fill at bar 16, 48 and 72 (a small one)
94 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART J, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In the Airwaves on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and snare through bars 65-72, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x-----------x-|
In the Airwaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-28 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-100 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 104-145 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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