Fire Island · Fountains Of Wayne

101 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-66 and 68-86 -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 146 BPM
FIRE ISLAND · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 95 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire Island?

146 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 Island hard to play on drums?

36 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.

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