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Signals Over The Air · Thursday

EXERCISE 22 OF 40
Groove N
72 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Signals Over The Air on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, ride through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-87.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------gg|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---xx|
Signals Over The Air -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- J, H (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-40 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED