A Match Where Great Fire Should Be · Greyhaven

154 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14 and 19-20, and 1 more place -- 4.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
A MATCH WHERE GREAT FIRE SHOULD BE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 44, 50, 52 and 35 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 18 sections: 53 keep time, 42 are fills, 39 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-12.

PART F
PART W
PART AL
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesBFWALAQF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Match Where Great Fire Should Be?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 A Match Where Great Fire Should Be hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 A Match Where Great Fire Should Be?

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 44, 50, 52 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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