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Jump into the Fire · Harry Nilsson

Jump into the Fire · Harry Nilsson
EXERCISE 5 OF 84
Groove AC -- Part AC
96 / 255 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART X
PART AC
PART AE
PART AC
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesEDACQX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 25
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jump into the Fire on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
7:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-13, hi-hat through bars 14-143 and toms through bars 144-255.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|
Jump into the Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- E, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-45 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-131 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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