I Would Hurt A Fly · Built to Spill

246 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 7:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 14-16 and 18, and 9 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
I WOULD HURT A FLY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 45, 46, 49, 50, 76, 80 and 9 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 123-126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

246 bars across 16 sections: 184 keep time, 15 are fills, 20 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 198-228.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART G
10 groovesAGJHS9+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Would Hurt A Fly?

136 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 I Would Hurt A 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

246 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Would Hurt A Fly?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 45, 46, 49, 50, 76, 80 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 246 BARS ANALYSED
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