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Fly To The Rainbow · Scorpions

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove I -- Chorus
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0 / 60 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fly To The Rainbow on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
8:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-25, toms through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33, toms through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-56, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-42 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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