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Ring Of Fire · Social Distortion

EXERCISE 9 OF 18
Fill at bar 113
159 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ring Of Fire on drums

167 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-35, ride through bars 36-51, hi-hat through bars 52-66 and ride through bars 67-113, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 37-51 and 68-97, and 3 more places -- 66.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 113, 144 and 165.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ring Of Fire?

170 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 hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Ring Of Fire?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 113, 144 and 165.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED