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Fly Away 6 · Ocean Grove

Fly Away 6 · Ocean Grove
EXERCISE 20 OF 42
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
58 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly Away 6 on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, snare through bars 42-44, hi-hat through bars 45-50, snare through bars 51-52 and toms through bars 53-54, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x------x--x--|
Fly Away 6 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-28 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-47 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-59 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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