Fireflies · Owl City

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 58-64, and 1 more place -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
FIREFLIES · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 45 keep time, 11 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-54.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART J
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNCEJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fireflies?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Fireflies hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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