Fly Me To The Moon · Frank Sinatra

72 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 121 BPM
FLY ME TO THE MOON · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 7 sections: 61 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDACGI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly Me To The Moon?

121 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 Me To The Moon hard to play on drums?

55 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Me To The Moon?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

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