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Gonna Fly Now · Bill Conti

Gonna Fly Now · Bill Conti
EXERCISE 15 OF 28
Fill at bar 35 (a small one)
100 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFJBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gonna Fly Now on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x----x-xx-----|
Gonna Fly Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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