Playing With Fire · Chelsea Grin

126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 12-19, and 8 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PLAYING WITH FIRE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 11, 35, 39, 43, 51 and 11 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 16 sections: 84 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AI
PART J
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCJAIDAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playing With Fire?

130 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 Playing With Fire hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Playing With Fire?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 11, 35, 39, 43, 51 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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