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English Fire · Cradle Of Filth

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 33 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
BREAK 3
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART S13
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDCLIS13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play English Fire on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 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
161
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, silence through bars 27-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 34, and 14 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
English Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 92, 96, 100 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-113 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is English Fire?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 English Fire hard to play on drums?

58 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 English Fire?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 48, 52, 92, 96, 100 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED