Fly Away · Lenny Kravitz

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-32, 34-48 and 50-73 -- 95.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
FLY AWAY · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 49.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 2 sections: 66 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-32.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly Away?

80 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 hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fly Away?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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