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Fly By Night · Rush
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EXERCISE 18 OF 52
Fill at bar 32 (a small one)
61 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEJDACA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly By Night on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, toms through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46, toms through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-70, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22                                               23
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------x-----x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |x-----o-----x-----x-----x-----------------x-----|x-----x-----x-----o-----x-----o-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------X-----------------X-----X--------g--|------X-----------------X-----------X--------g--|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------------------x-----|x-----------------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Fly By Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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