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Firework · Katy Perry

EXERCISE 5 OF 25
Groove A -- Break
74 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Firework on drums

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

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, silence through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-65 and snare through bars 66-69, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, G -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 23-88 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-66 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-96 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED