Flying · Anathema

91 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-36, 38-44 and 46-48, and 3 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FLYING · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 13, 29, 37, 45, 49 and 14 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 20 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-87.

PART E
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesLIHES1+1Fill 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 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 Flying hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Flying?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 13, 29, 37, 45, 49 and 14 more.

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