Fly · Sugar Ray

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 10 more places -- 67.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
FLY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 5 sections: 95 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-51.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAECS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly?

97 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?

38 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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