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Fly Me To The Moon · Frank Sinatra

Fly Me To The Moon · Frank Sinatra
EXERCISE 12 OF 25
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 35-37)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly Me To The Moon on drums

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

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-62, snare through bars 63-64 and ride through bars 65-72.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |x-----x--g--x-----x--g--|
HF |------x-----------x-----|
Fly Me To The Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-37 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 42-50 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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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