Fire and Fear · PENGUIN RESEARCH

180 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 37-43 and 45-47, and 9 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 195 BPM
FIRE AND FEAR · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 9, 30, 31, 32, 33, 44 and 31 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 30-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 18 sections: 61 keep time, 37 are fills, 53 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-89.

PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Z
CHORUS 4
PART AH
PART A
PART AM
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCAAMAHG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire and Fear?

195 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 Fire and Fear hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 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, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fire and Fear?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 9, 30, 31, 32, 33, 44 and 31 more.

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