Backfire · Thrown

79 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 21-23, and 2 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BACKFIRE · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 56, 60, 62, 66, 76 and 3 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 12 sections: 40 keep time, 9 are fills, 16 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-11.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART O
PART Q
PART V
PART Y
OUTRO
10 groovesCHOS12V+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Backfire?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Backfire hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Backfire?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 56, 60, 62, 66, 76 and 3 more.

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