Fly To The Rainbow · Scorpions

176 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 8:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
8:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 28-33 and 36-37, and 6 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
FLY TO THE RAINBOW · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 7, 22, 26, 27, 34 and 26 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 14 sections: 124 keep time, 32 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-175.

PART F
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART AE
PART A
OUTRO
10 groovesINANAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fly To The Rainbow?

80 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 To The Rainbow hard to play on drums?

63 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 8:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fly To The Rainbow?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 7, 22, 26, 27, 34 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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