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Fire God and Fear · Rotting Christ

EXERCISE 25 OF 35
Groove N -- Outro
98 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire God and Fear on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-67, toms through bars 68-69, snare through bars 70-72, hi-hat through bars 73-80 and toms through bars 81-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, A, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-57 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 56-74 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-93 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 93-106 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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