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Learning To Fly · Pink Floyd

EXERCISE 12 OF 18
Join Part C to Part K (bars 58-60)
67 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART K
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Learning To Fly on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, silence through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30 and silence through bars 31-34, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-24 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-62 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-98 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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