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Flight of the Fireflies · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 6 OF 66
Groove C
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flight of the Fireflies on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-27, ride through bars 28-35, snare through bars 36-37 and ride through bars 38-39, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-------|
Flight of the Fireflies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-29 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-52 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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