Firework · Katy Perry

120 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-23, 37-39 and 47-62, and 11 more places -- 52.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
FIREWORK · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 15 sections: 93 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-95.

PART D
BREAK 3
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGDS5KC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Firework?

124 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 Firework hard to play on drums?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Firework?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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