Human Fly · The Cramps

65 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 1:56 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

RockPunk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-23, 26-31 and 34-51, and 2 more places -- 83.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
HUMAN FLY · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 7.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 2 sections: 58 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-65.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Human Fly?

135 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 Human Fly hard to play on drums?

39 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Human Fly?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 7.

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