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The Air That I Breathe · The Hollies

The Air That I Breathe · The Hollies
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Air That I Breathe on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-36, snare through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61, snare through bars 62-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-74, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-49 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED