Flying · Anathema

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-14, 20-24 and 35-44, and 3 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FLYING · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 33 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-109.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGHCD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flying?

120 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 Flying hard to play on drums?

35 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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