Fly Me Courageous · Drivin N Cryin

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 13 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FLY ME COURAGEOUS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 87.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 77 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-33.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIOS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly Me Courageous?

120 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 Me Courageous hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fly Me Courageous?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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