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HOW TO FLY · Sticky Fingers

HOW TO FLY · Sticky Fingers
EXERCISE 6 OF 8
Join Chorus to Part S3 (bars 59-61)
89 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1S5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play HOW TO FLY on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-61, silence through bars 62-65, hi-hat through bars 66-94, silence through bars 95-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-118.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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