Close To My Fire · Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa

229 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 136 BPM, 5:03 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-20, and 17 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
CLOSE TO MY FIRE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 71, 127, 203 and 228.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 228 · LANDS ON BAR 229
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 12 sections: 202 keep time, 5 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-189.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesBFMPI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Close To My Fire?

136 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Close To My Fire hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 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 Close To My Fire?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 71, 127, 203 and 228.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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