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Fire · jimi Hendrix

EXERCISE 18 OF 61
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
82 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART E
PART N
PART R
PART K
PART AF
PART AJ
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
BREAK
BREAK 2
11 groovesJAJKS13S15+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire on drums

176 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-21, ride through bars 22-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-44, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 20 and 65, and 8 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fire?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fire hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fire?

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED