Walking In The Air · Nightwish

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-14, 16-22 and 24-31, and 4 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 109 BPM
WALKING IN THE AIR · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 15, 23, 32, 40, 48 and 3 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 6 sections: 45 keep time, 9 are fills, 48 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCJHS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking In The Air?

109 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 Walking In The Air hard to play on drums?

44 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Walking In The Air?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 15, 23, 32, 40, 48 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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