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Walking In The Air · Nightwish

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCJHS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking In The Air on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-47, toms through bars 48-49, ride through bars 50-66, silence through bars 67-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Walking In The Air -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-78 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-82 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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