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Fly Away · The Bursthead

EXERCISE 7 OF 15
Groove D
112 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly Away on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
69/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 19 and 21, and 8 more places -- 66.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |------o-------o-------o-|
SD |--x-------x-------x-----|
FT |----x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------|
Fly Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fly Away?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED