Great Balls Of Fire · Jerry Lee Lewis

66 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 1:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 30-35, and 2 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 158 BPM
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 57.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 6 sections: 49 keep time, 2 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-51.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Great Balls Of Fire?

158 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 Great Balls Of Fire hard to play on drums?

41 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Great Balls Of Fire?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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