Thin Air · Citizen

90 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THIN AIR · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 13 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 52 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART F
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCPFJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thin Air?

125 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 Thin Air hard to play on drums?

45 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Thin Air?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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