Flying · Arji

143 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 35-61 and 63-70, and 4 more places -- 70.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FLYING · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 62 and 116.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 90 keep time, 2 are fills and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-61.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART C
7 groovesBS6CS1D+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flying?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Flying hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Flying?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 62 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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