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Fly As Me · Silk Sonic

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove Z -- Outro
16 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly As Me on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-19, ride through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-45, ride through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xx-xx-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x---------------|
Fly As Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-29 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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