Fly Me To The Moon · The Shadows

98 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-36 and 38-52, and 3 more places -- 67% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 177 BPM
FLY ME TO THE MOON · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 6 sections: 91 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-68.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly Me To The Moon?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fly Me To The Moon hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 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 To The Moon?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

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