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FLY AGAIN · Turnstile

EXERCISE 20 OF 23
Fill at bar 100 (a small one)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play FLY AGAIN on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-45, snare through bars 46-54, hi-hat through bars 55-76, snare through bars 77-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-90, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 50-91 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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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