Fire In The Sky · Hypocrisy

133 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 41-47 and 69-75, and 4 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FIRE IN THE SKY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 9 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 14 sections: 87 keep time, 15 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-108.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART S11
PART M
OUTRO
7 groovesCAMHE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire In The Sky?

110 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 In The Sky hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 In The Sky?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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