Ring Of Fire (1987 Version) · Johnny Cash

154 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8-10, and 18 more places -- 85% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 212 BPM
RING OF FIRE (1987 VERSION) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 2 sections: 151 keep time, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-152.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ring Of Fire (1987 Version)?

212 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 Ring Of Fire (1987 Version) hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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