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We Were Born to Fly · Scorpions

EXERCISE 11 OF 43
Groove F
60 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Were Born to Fly on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-55, ride through bars 56-68, hi-hat through bars 69-76, snare through bars 77-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x-xx-----|
We Were Born to Fly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 16-39 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-56 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-64 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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