Fire And Water · Free

65 bars, 3:38, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 22-25 and 28-42, and 1 more place -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
FIRE AND WATER · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 16, 17 and 8 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-42.

PART C
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCLEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire And Water?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fire And Water hard to play on drums?

63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 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 Water?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 16, 17 and 8 more.

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