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Born Of Fire · Slayer

EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Born Of Fire on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-64, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-26 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-74 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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