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Learn To Fly · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 25 OF 44
Fill at bar 71 (a small one)
119 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Learn To Fly on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-37, hi-hat through bars 38-39 and snare through bars 40-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Learn To Fly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-51 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 76-105 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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