Learn To Fly · Foo Fighters

131 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40-42 and 44-46, and 11 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
LEARN TO FLY · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 17, 23, 24, 25, 33 and 27 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 10 sections: 87 keep time, 34 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
3 groovesKBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Learn To 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 Learn To Fly hard to play on drums?

61 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?

131 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Learn To Fly?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 17, 23, 24, 25, 33 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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