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Close To My Fire · Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa

Close To My Fire · Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa
EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 34 PASSED · 120 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesBFMPI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Close To My Fire on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-140, snare through bars 141-147, hi-hat through bars 148-224 and ride through bars 225-229.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
Close To My Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 58-86 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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