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Flying At Tree Level · Brand New

EXERCISE 11 OF 15
Run S71 · Outro (bars 69-71)
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CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS3S5S7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flying At Tree Level on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-43, silence through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-69 and silence through bars 70-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 27-42 and 52-67, and 1 more place -- 87% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 51, 68, 72 and 85.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 41-69 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Flying At Tree Level?

88 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 At Tree Level hard to play on drums?

40 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 At Tree Level?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 51, 68, 72 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED