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Flee to the Fire (Deathright version) · Severix

EXERCISE 8 OF 85
Groove B -- Part B
63 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART S
PART AC
PART B
PART AH
PART AU
BREAK
13 groovesS16HSAAU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flee to the Fire (Deathright version) on drums

214 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-60, toms through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-172 and silence through bars 173-214.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-71, 73-75 and 85-87, and 8 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Flee to the Fire (Deathright version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 61, 62 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-88 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-69 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-48 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Flee to the Fire (Deathright version)?

152 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 Flee to the Fire (Deathright version) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

214 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Flee to the Fire (Deathright version)?

17 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 61, 62 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED