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Fire In The Sky · Hypocrisy

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire In The Sky on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-25 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-85 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-133 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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