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Fire · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 18 OF 46
Groove P
79 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGKYOLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire on drums

105 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, snare through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 17 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|
HH |--------o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-29 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 49-65 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fire?

210 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?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED