Long Flight · Human Tetris

197 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-59, 61-67 and 69-75, and 8 more places -- 73.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 190 BPM
LONG FLIGHT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 68, 133, 189, 196 and 197.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 196-197 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 6 sections: 184 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-132.

CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Flight?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Long Flight hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Long Flight?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 68, 133, 189, 196 and 197.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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