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Path Of Fire · Booxras

EXERCISE 21 OF 47
Join Part I to Chorus (bars 31-33)
60 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART S13
BREAK
11 groovesMS15EIT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Path Of Fire on drums

126 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-95 and silence through bars 96-102, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 3 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 49, 61, 78 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-25 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Path Of Fire?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Path Of Fire hard to play on drums?

59 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Path Of Fire?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 49, 61, 78 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED