fierce. · Gus G.

178 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 50-56 and 58-64, and 7 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
FIERCE. · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 28 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 13 sections: 121 keep time, 34 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-71.

PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMBACAAJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is fierce.?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is fierce. hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 fierce.?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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