Fuel My Fire (AI) with drums · L7

159 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-27, and 8 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 172 BPM
FUEL MY FIRE (AI) WITH DRUMS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 36, 52, 60 and 10 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 10 sections: 127 keep time, 16 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
5 groovesAEIKGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fuel My Fire (AI) with drums?

172 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 Fuel My Fire (AI) with drums hard to play on drums?

59 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?

159 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fuel My Fire (AI) with drums?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 36, 52, 60 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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