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Bed on Fire · G Flip

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCRSM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bed on Fire on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-58, snare through bars 59-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-29 and 31, and 16 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
Bed on Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 84, 120, 124, 131 and 132.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-61 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-92 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bed on Fire?

152 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 Bed on Fire hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bed on Fire?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 84, 120, 124, 131 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED