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Light My Fire · The Doors

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove B -- Chorus 3
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDMWK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Light My Fire on drums

222 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 6:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
222
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, ride through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-21, ride through bars 22-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-181, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 15-17 and 19-20, and 29 more places -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 21, 36, 64, 87, 89 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-37 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-86 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 5 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-119 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Light My Fire?

128 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 Light My Fire hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

222 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Light My Fire?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 21, 36, 64, 87, 89 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 222 BARS ANALYSED