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I Would Hurt A Fly · Built to Spill

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 48 PASSED · 83 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART G
10 groovesAGJHS9+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Would Hurt A Fly on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, toms through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-74 and toms through bars 75-76, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-------|
BD |----x-----------|
I Would Hurt A Fly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- A, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 76-189 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-88 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-127 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 127-164 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 175-228 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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