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Fight Fire With Fire · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove M -- Part M
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0 / 59 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART AC
CHORUS
PART M
PART M
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART P
PART M
PART M
PART AC
PART M
16 groovesHMPACA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fight Fire With Fire on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
9:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10 and silence through bars 11-12, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Fight Fire With Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- M, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-27 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-78 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-107 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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