Great Balls Of Fire · Misfits

74 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 1:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-15 and 18-23, and 2 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 166 BPM
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 53.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 4 sections: 68 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-35.

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

Questions

What BPM is Great Balls Of Fire?

166 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?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Great Balls Of Fire?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 53.

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