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Flying · Anathema

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove L -- Chorus
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0 / 33 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesLIHES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flying on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-29, ride through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-55 and ride through bars 56-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-------x-x---|
Flying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- L, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED