We Were Born to Fly · Scorpions

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 23-25, and 10 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
WE WERE BORN TO FLY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 22, 26, 30 and 14 more.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEIPSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Were Born to Fly?

89 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 We Were Born to Fly hard to play on drums?

60 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in We Were Born to Fly?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 22, 26, 30 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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