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Flying · Arji

Flying · Arji
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flying on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, snare through bars 35-71, silence through bars 72-99 and snare through bars 100-107, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Flying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-140 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-115 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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