Fire · The Jimi Hendrix Experience

106 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11 and 14, and 5 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
FIRE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16 and 19 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 25 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-37.

PART F
PART O
PART T
PART X
PART AD
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAGFTADO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire?

156 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?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 25 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16 and 19 more.

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