The Fly · U2

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 35 and 39, and 14 more places -- 44.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE FLY · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 30, 34, 62, 104 and 113.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 3 sections: 104 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-103.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The 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 The Fly hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Fly?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 30, 34, 62, 104 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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