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Fire Bird · Roselia

EXERCISE 2 OF 73
Groove L -- Part L
41 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART S8
CHORUS 4
PART L
CHORUS 5
BREAK
PART L
PART S14
PART L
OUTRO
8 groovesGLS8S12S14+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire Bird on drums

182 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, toms through bars 27-32, hi-hat through bars 33-47 and snare through bars 48-50, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12-13 and 15-17, and 12 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Fire Bird -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 18, 19 and 73 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-33 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-68 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fire Bird?

160 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 Bird hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Bird?

26 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 18, 19 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED