Signals Over The Air · Thursday

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 23 and 35, and 5 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
SIGNALS OVER THE AIR · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 56 and 4 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time and 11 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-53.

PART D
PART F
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJFQDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Signals Over The Air?

81 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 Signals Over The Air hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Signals Over The Air?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 56 and 4 more.

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