Still Fly · The Devil Wears Prada

209 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 4:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 49, and 7 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
STILL FLY · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 19 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 16 sections: 125 keep time, 25 are fills, 42 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART Y
PART AG
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDHNLY+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Fly?

179 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 Still Fly hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Still Fly?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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