Firebirds · Clutch

123 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 33 and 57, and 4 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FIREBIRDS · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 25 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 11-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 49-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 31 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-99.

CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AI
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBRNAIK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Firebirds?

165 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 Firebirds hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Firebirds?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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