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Firehouse · KISS

EXERCISE 17 OF 37
Groove K -- Part K
54 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART L
PART P
PART K
PART P
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesEPLSK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Firehouse on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, toms through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45, toms through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-57, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-33, 36-37 and 39-41, and 5 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Firehouse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L, S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-91 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Firehouse?

116 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 Firehouse hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Firehouse?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED