Fight or flight · Conan Gray

98 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21 and 25-29, and 8 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
FIGHT OR FLIGHT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 48, 63, 64, 72 and 92.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 6 are fills, 12 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-29.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDS1JS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fight or flight?

138 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 Fight or flight hard to play on drums?

38 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fight or flight?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 48, 63, 64, 72 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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