I Would Hurt a Fly · Built to Spill

123 bars, 7:21, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 16 and 18, and 9 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 67 BPM
I WOULD HURT A FLY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 23, 25, 38, 39, 40, 43 and 18 more.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 62-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 24 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAOGKS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Would Hurt a Fly?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Would Hurt a Fly hard to play on drums?

55 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 7:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 24 times: bars 23, 25, 38, 39, 40, 43 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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