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Fight or flight · Conan Gray

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDS1JS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fight or flight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-62, snare through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-83, silence through bars 84-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-98.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Fight or flight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 53-73 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-83 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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