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The Fly · U2

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove F -- Outro 2
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0 / 14 PASSED · 50 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Fly on drums

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

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
31/100

toms through bars 2-62, snare through bars 63-66 and toms through bars 67-114.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x--x----x---|
T2 |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
The Fly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- F, C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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