Fly As Me · Silk Sonic

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 12-13 and 16, and 4 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FLY AS ME · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 15 times: bars 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 9 more.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time and 15 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-57.

PART C
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOJZCH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly As Me?

100 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 Fly As Me hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Fly As Me?

1 fill to learn, played 15 times: bars 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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