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Embers Fire · Paradise Lost

EXERCISE 6 OF 21
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 20-22)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGS1BCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Embers Fire on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and ride through bars 37-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 33, and 13 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Embers Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-37 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 37-77 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Embers Fire?

150 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 Embers 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Embers Fire?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.

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