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Given To Fly · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 28 OF 29
Run I2 · Outro (bars 73-90)
96 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Given To Fly on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-46, toms through bars 47-64, hi-hat through bars 65-90 and toms through bars 91-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 22, and 4 more places -- 41.2% 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
T1 |---xx----xx-x-xx|
T2 |------x---------|
FT |x---------------|
Given To Fly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 34, 41, 42 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-39 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-80 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Given To Fly?

100 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 Given To Fly hard to play on drums?

45 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Given To Fly?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 34, 41, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED