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Fire And Water · Free

EXERCISE 3 OF 27
3-bar fill at bar 1
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire And Water on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56 and toms through bars 57-65.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-58 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED