FLY AGAIN · Turnstile

104 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-44, 55-60 and 63-70, and 2 more places -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FLY AGAIN · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 54, 82, 90, 94 and 100.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time, 6 are fills, 25 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-62.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS1KHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is FLY AGAIN?

180 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 FLY AGAIN hard to play on drums?

42 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 FLY AGAIN?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 54, 82, 90, 94 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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