Fire Water Burn · Bloodhound Gang

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-34 and 39-40, and 5 more places -- 68.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FIRE WATER BURN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 11, 44, 52, 53 and 94.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 86 keep time, 5 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-34.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBENMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fire Water Burn?

100 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 Water Burn hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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.

How many fills are in Fire Water Burn?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 11, 44, 52, 53 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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