S & M Airlines · NOFX

193 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 32 more places -- 58% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
S & M AIRLINES · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 35 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 13 sections: 113 keep time, 41 are fills, 3 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 177-191.

BREAK
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesFS3SS1B+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is S & M Airlines?

170 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 S & M Airlines hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 S & M Airlines?

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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