Gonna Fly Now · Bill Conti

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-19, 22-32 and 34, and 3 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
GONNA FLY NOW · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 21, 33, 35 and 22 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 7 sections: 74 keep time, 28 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-48.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFJBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gonna Fly Now?

96 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 Gonna Fly Now hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Gonna Fly Now?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 21, 33, 35 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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