Firesuite · Doves

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-21, 34-35 and 40-42 -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
FIRESUITE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 62 and 73.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-21.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBCGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Firesuite?

78 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 Firesuite hard to play on drums?

48 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Firesuite?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 62 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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