The Adventure · Angels & Airwaves

162 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 74-88 and 138-140, and 3 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 143 BPM
THE ADVENTURE · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 9 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 12 sections: 97 keep time, 15 are fills, 8 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-103.

PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGCS2KO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Adventure?

143 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 The Adventure hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Adventure?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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