Jump into the Fire · Harry Nilsson

255 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 7:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
7:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 19 and 23, and 26 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
JUMP INTO THE FIRE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 63, 84, 85 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 19 sections: 214 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-83.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART X
PART AC
15 groovesEDACQX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jump into the Fire?

135 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 Jump into the Fire hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 7:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Jump into the Fire?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 63, 84, 85 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED
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