Fire and the Flood · Vance Joy

117 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-48 and 85-92 -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
FIRE AND THE FLOOD · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 67, 68, 84, 108 and 112.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 17 sections: 78 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-48.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
14 groovesEOGS1F+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire and the Flood?

115 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 Fire and the Flood hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fire and the Flood?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 67, 68, 84, 108 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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