Fly By Night · Rush

111 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-23, 26 and 42-43, and 7 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 139 BPM
FLY BY NIGHT · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 27, 28, 32 and 19 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 139 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 66 keep time, 25 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-26.

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

Questions

What BPM is Fly By Night?

139 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 By Night 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 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 By Night?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 27, 28, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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