Flight of the Fireflies · Orbit Culture

165 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 44-50, and 8 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 143 BPM
FLIGHT OF THE FIREFLIES · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 30 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 9-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 13-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 16 sections: 91 keep time, 36 are fills, 18 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesBADAQKG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flight of the Fireflies?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Flight of the Fireflies hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flight of the Fireflies?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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