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Fireball · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 29 OF 38
Run Z1 · Part Z (bars 123-131)
195 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
3 groovesFBZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fireball on drums

201 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 1-58, toms through bars 59-60 and ride through bars 61-201.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 29 and 31, and 18 more places -- 65.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Fireball -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-132 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part Z and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fireball?

240 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 Fireball hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Fireball?

12 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED