Fight Fire With Fire · 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 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
9:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-46, 48-49 and 55-58, and 9 more places -- 21.9% 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 · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 17, 18, 42, 54, 64, 66 and 27 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 8 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

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 31 sections: 119 keep time, 33 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-41.

CHORUS
CHORUS 4
PART P
PART M
PART M
PART AC
16 groovesHMPACA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fight Fire With Fire?

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 hard to play on drums?

60 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 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 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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?

8 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 17, 18, 42, 54, 64, 66 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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