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Fire · Black Pumas

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesACEBG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, ride through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-71, ride through bars 72-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9 and 11, and 19 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fire?

96 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 hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED