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Fire and Fear · PENGUIN RESEARCH

Fire and Fear · PENGUIN RESEARCH
EXERCISE 28 OF 76
Fill at bar 64 and 101 (a small one)
80 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire and Fear on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-29, ride through bars 30-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-48, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, AH -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-21 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-36 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-75 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Z -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED