FIREWORK · &TEAM

127 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 41-54 and 81-83, and 2 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FIREWORK · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 72, 80 and 112.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 12 sections: 96 keep time, 4 are fills, 9 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-32.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART D
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART A
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBDALI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is FIREWORK?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is FIREWORK hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in FIREWORK?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 72, 80 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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