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I Am The Fire · Halestorm

EXERCISE 8 OF 37
Fill at bar 20 (a small one)
32 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS1ADZMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am The Fire on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-37 and snare through bars 38-43, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-22 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx-x---xxx-x---|
I Am The Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, Z -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 23-38 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Z and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am The Fire?

86 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 I Am The Fire hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 I Am The Fire?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED