Fire on the Mountain · Grateful Dead

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 20 more places -- 69.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 77 BPM
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars: 72 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-72.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire on the Mountain?

77 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 on the Mountain hard to play on drums?

40 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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