Fly Away 6 · Ocean Grove

74 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
FLY AWAY 6 · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 11 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 50 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART A
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKADGR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly Away 6?

114 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 Away 6 hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fly Away 6?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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