The Air That I Breathe · The Hollies

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-36, 46-52 and 54-61, and 1 more place -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
THE AIR THAT I BREATHE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 7 sections: 75 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Air That I Breathe?

88 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 Air That I Breathe hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Air That I Breathe?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

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