Fire God and Fear · Rotting Christ

121 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 41-55 and 89-95 -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 121 BPM
FIRE GOD AND FEAR · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 56, 64, 68, 72, 96 and 4 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 10 sections: 47 keep time, 10 are fills and 55 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDAJNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire God and Fear?

121 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 God and Fear hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 God and Fear?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 56, 64, 68, 72, 96 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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