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Firesuite · Doves

Firesuite · Doves
EXERCISE 15 OF 24
Join Part B to Part S7 (bars 51-53)
47 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART S7
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Firesuite on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-25, silence through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-36 and ride through bars 37-39, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-52 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-68 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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