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Ducks Fly Together · Triple Deke

Ducks Fly Together · Triple Deke
EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 95 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesIBRNS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ducks Fly Together on drums

205 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-50, toms through bars 51-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-80, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 41-43 and 45-46, and 8 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    110
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Ducks Fly Together -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 32, 54, 62 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-33 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-40 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-89 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-78 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ducks Fly Together?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ducks Fly Together hard to play on drums?

59 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ducks Fly Together?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 32, 54, 62 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED