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Fly Like An Eagle 2 · Steve Miller Band

EXERCISE 9 OF 22
Groove I -- Part I
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
VERSE
OUTRO
4 groovesDIMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly Like An Eagle 2 on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34 and ride through bars 35-39, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-17, 20 and 23-25, and 9 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xx--------|
Fly Like An Eagle 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 60, 61 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 34-44 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-73 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fly Like An Eagle 2?

96 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 Like An Eagle 2 hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Like An Eagle 2?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 60, 61 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED