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Playing With Fire · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 3 OF 63
Groove J -- Part J
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Playing With Fire on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-17, snare through bars 18-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43 and snare through bars 44-51, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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