HOW TO FLY · Sticky Fingers

118 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-28, 30-44 and 46-60, and 3 more places -- 91.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HOW TO FLY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 6 sections: 89 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1S5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is HOW TO FLY?

150 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 HOW TO FLY hard to play on drums?

42 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in HOW TO FLY?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →