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Fly Away From Here · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 15 OF 35
Groove I -- Outro
46 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFS1IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly Away From Here on drums

73 bars, 4:14, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, ride through bars 39-47, hi-hat through bars 48-50 and ride through bars 51-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-21, 23-24 and 39, and 10 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Fly Away From Here -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 22, 26, 34, 36, 37 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fly Away From Here?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fly Away From Here hard to play on drums?

43 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Away From Here?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 22, 26, 34, 36, 37 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED