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Flying · Anathema

EXERCISE 21 OF 27
Join Chorus 4 to Outro (bars 73-75)
105 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGHCD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flying on drums

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

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24, snare through bars 25-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-54, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Flying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- B, G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-20 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-30 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-46 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-75 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-109 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED