Fields of Athenry V2 · Dropkick Murphys

153 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41-43, and 8 more places -- 52.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
FIELDS OF ATHENRY V2 · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 24, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 15 are fills, 41 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-115.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFS10NS2L+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fields of Athenry V2?

144 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 Fields of Athenry V2 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fields of Athenry V2?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 24, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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