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A Match Where Great Fire Should Be · Greyhaven

EXERCISE 10 OF 98
Groove H
29 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 2
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Match Where Great Fire Should Be on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-54, snare through bars 55-63, toms through bars 64-70 and snare through bars 71-77, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........
RD |x--------x--------x-----------x-x---|
HH |---g--x-----x--g-----g-----g-----x-g|
SD |------------------------x-----------|
BD |X--------X--------X-----------------|
A Match Where Great Fire Should Be -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF, AG -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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