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Great Balls Of Fire · Misfits

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Great Balls Of Fire on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-15, snare through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-23 and snare through bars 24-29, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Great Balls Of Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED