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Learning To Fly · Tom Petty

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Learning To Fly on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-59, silence through bars 60-66, hi-hat through bars 67-83, toms through bars 84-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-39, 41-49 and 51-58, and 6 more places -- 86.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 50, 66, 74, 84, 85 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Learning To Fly?

120 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?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Learning To Fly?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 40, 50, 66, 74, 84, 85 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED