Fight Fire With Fire (Live in Toronto 1986 - Fastest Metallica Concert) · Metallica

195 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 9:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
9:45
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-46, 48-49 and 55-58, and 8 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE (LIVE IN TORONTO 1986 - FASTEST METALLICA CONCERT) · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 68, 70, 72 and 26 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 24 sections: 127 keep time, 32 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-41.

PART I
PART I
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNIRAFAI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fight Fire With Fire (Live in Toronto 1986 - Fastest Metallica Concert)?

80 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 Fight Fire With Fire (Live in Toronto 1986 - Fastest Metallica Concert) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 9:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Fight Fire With Fire (Live in Toronto 1986 - Fastest Metallica Concert)?

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 68, 70, 72 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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