Fire On The Mountain · Marshall Tucker Band

95 bars, 4:54, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO

75 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

95

LENGTH

4:54

DIFFICULTY

56/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15, snare through bars 16-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-77, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 12-15 and 20-23, and 5 more places -- 51.1% 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 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 37, 45, 68, 69, 90 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 18 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Bars 6-20 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
3. Through the Verse 2 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Verse 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through the Verse 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through the Verse 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through the Verse 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.