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Ignite · Jeff Williams (ft. Casey Lee Williams and Lamar Hall)

Ignite · Jeff Williams (ft. Casey Lee Williams and Lamar Hall)
EXERCISE 29 OF 34
Fill at bar 118 and 147 (a small one)
147 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, OUTRO 2
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
2 groovesKJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ignite on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
93/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-49, snare through bars 50-58 and toms through bars 59-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-18 and 25, and 13 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Ignite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Ignite?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ignite hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ignite?

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED