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FLY · Spectrum
EXERCISE 10 OF 47
Groove F
33 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
PART Q
PART U
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCNJHP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play FLY on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 1-2 and hi-hat through bars 3-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 28 and 58, and 3 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x------xx---|
BD |x--x-x-xx-------|
FLY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 14, 18, 26, 31, 40 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 6-16 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-19 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-75 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-38 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is FLY?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 14, 18, 26, 31, 40 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED