Born Of Fire · Slayer

163 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 42-48, and 3 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 214 BPM
BORN OF FIRE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 29, 31, 33 and 27 more.

LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 17 sections: 106 keep time, 33 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART X
OUTRO
8 groovesDGBXAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born Of Fire?

214 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 Born Of Fire hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Born Of Fire?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 29, 31, 33 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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