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Fire and the Flood · Vance Joy

EXERCISE 30 OF 39
Groove Q -- Outro
82 / 117 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
14 groovesEOGS1F+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire and the Flood on drums

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

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-48 and silence through bars 49-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x--xx-x--xx-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Fire and the Flood -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E, F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-69 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-77 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-88 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 91-105 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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