Learning To Fly · Pink Floyd

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 7-10 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 83 BPM
LEARNING TO FLY · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-98.

BREAK 3
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART K
BREAK 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDACS11S4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Learning To Fly?

83 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 Learning To Fly hard to play on drums?

48 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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