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Fire · The Jimi Hendrix Experience

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove F -- Part F
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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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fire on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, ride through bars 38-63 and toms through bars 64-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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 25 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- F, AG -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED